Alexander Chee Quotes

You are never lost in sorrow, it seems to me, ever. You do know the way. In fact, you don't think th...

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must b...

I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom ...

You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.No one should...

Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, als...

After his sisters were taken away, the Japanese occupying force sent my grandfather to Imperial Scho...

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue a...

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that ...

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Be...

My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She al...

Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whos...

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The ...