Victoria Chang Quotes

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• I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.

  Victoria Chang

  Character, Pride, Dust

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• I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

  Victoria Chang

  Creative, Talent, Ability

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

  Victoria Chang

  Fabric, Helping, Grain

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

  Victoria Chang

  Morning, World, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

  Victoria Chang

  Book, Writing, Care

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.

  Victoria Chang

  Writing, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

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  Suicide, People, Obsessed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

  Victoria Chang

  Book, Reading, Reader

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, People, Way

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.

  Victoria Chang

  Done, Prestigious

  "The Rumpus Interview With Victoria Chang". therumpus.net. September 23, 2013.

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• My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

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  Parent, Different, Poet

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

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  Emotional, Hypocrisy, Desire

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• I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.

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  Jobs, Kids, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.

  Victoria Chang

  Writing, Long, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

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  Community, West Coast, Spread

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People who are too uptight make me nervous.

  Victoria Chang

  People, Uptight, Nervous

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

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  Giving, Too Much, Taught

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

  Victoria Chang

  Editors, Wanted, Edited

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, Kind, Easy

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

  Victoria Chang

  Book, Lasts, Process

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

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  Love Is, Talking, Conversation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.

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  Thinking, Impact, Poet

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.

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  Nice, Book, Mean

  Interview with Abigail Welhouse, therumpus.net. September 23, 2013.

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• I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.

  Victoria Chang

  Book, Poet, Favorite Book

  Interview with Abigail Welhouse, therumpus.net. September 23, 2013.

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• I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

  Victoria Chang

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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