Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. — Alexander Chee Born Copy Share Image
I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the… — Alexander Chee Forests Copy Share Image
“None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.” — Alexander Chee Destiny Copy Share Image
As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes… — Alexander Chee Chapters Copy Share Image
Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek… — Alexander Chee Abuse Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy and I sang, my voice felt to me like a leak sprung from a small and secret… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you. No one should… — Alexander Chee Best friend Copy Share Image
Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the… — Alexander Chee Bibliography Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.” — Alexander Chee Reading Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her… — Alexander Chee Bigs Copy Share Image
Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the… — Alexander Chee Anna Copy Share Image
I knew it was a risk but what I was after was a novel that is about the feeling that comes with… — Alexander Chee Books Copy Share Image
“The storm is a glazier. Then fog passes through, touches the cold trees to add to the ice already there. Here the… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights. — Alexander Chee Marriage Copy Share Image
The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's… — Alexander Chee Ability Copy Share Image
“Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece. — Alexander Chee Editors Copy Share Image
My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was… — Alexander Chee Amazed Copy Share Image
“The word for her in Paris, a courtesan who had made it to the stage, was grue—it happened so often there was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia… — Alexander Chee Academia Copy Share Image
The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them. — Alexander Chee Looks Copy Share Image
Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you. — Alexander Chee Books Copy Share Image
“I was now both the secret and the keeper of it, but the idea that I could not know what is was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
