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“The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.”

Quote by Alexander Chee

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Alexander Chee is a contemporary fiction writer known for his profound character development and rich cultural background. His novels often explore themes of identity, race, and gender, and have been well-received by readers. more

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“My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.”

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“Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.”

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“It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well." That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp.”

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“I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!”

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“One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture.”

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“The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.”

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“As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.”

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“I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.”

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“I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!”

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“Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.”

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