“The silence of the victims of the past imposes a duty on the present to recover their voices, and we are most… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Every moment, as we walk on this earth, we are watched and judged by the eyes of the universe.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The 'Grace of Kings' begins as a very dark, complicated world filled with injustices - among them the oppressed position of women… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“For a moment, as I listened to her, I felt as if I could step through the distance between us and hear… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“We also fight our war against hail and storm, against drought and deprivation, against the sharp blade of the weeding hoe and… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I'm conscious of the fact that I'm sort of a bridging figure. I have my Chinese literary heritage and cultural background, so… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Ever since I became an American, people have told me that America is about leaving your past behind. I’ve never understood that.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation. At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potentials in my neurons… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that. — Ken Liu Copy Share
People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that… — Ken Liu Copy Share
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.… — Ken Liu Copy Share
“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.” — Ken Liu Copy Share
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language. — Ken Liu Copy Share
“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.” — Ken Liu Copy Share
Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result. — Ken Liu Copy Share
“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish to teach.” — Ken Liu Copy Share
I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they… — Ken Liu Copy Share
“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.” — Ken Liu Copy Share
Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical… — Ken Liu Copy Share
We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others. — Ken Liu Copy Share
“By custom, we wield the sword and wear the armor, but who among you does not know a mother, sister, daughter, friend, who exceeds… — Ken Liu Copy Share
My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on… — Ken Liu Copy Share
