The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the… — 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
I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
