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“I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.”

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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“Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the novel possible. Change the limits and the force leaves. The novel becomes impossible.”

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“It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.”

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“I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.”

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