I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was! — Alexander Chee I realized Copy Share Image
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor… — Alexander Chee Communication Copy Share Image
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. — Alexander Chee Activist Copy Share Image
I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or… — Alexander Chee Books Copy Share Image
The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't that you must be agile, or that you must be good with… — Alexander Chee Be good Copy Share Image
As writer pay declined and teacher pay also, we all started hanging out online. You could say online social networks cheapen our… — Alexander Chee Hanging out Copy Share Image
Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA. — Alexander Chee Book Copy Share Image
I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if… — Alexander Chee Hard Copy Share Image
“There was a question I wanted answered more than I wanted anything else, and it could take my life to answer it.… — Alexander Chee Life Copy Share Image
“My grandfather knows about hauntings, it occurs to me now. Here was where he knew his sisters, here was what he remembered,… — Alexander Chee Every day Copy Share Image
I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And… — Alexander Chee Careers Copy Share Image
Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that… — Alexander Chee Books Copy Share Image
PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart… — Alexander Chee Faces Copy Share Image
“I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented… — Alexander Chee Honor Copy Share Image
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel. — Alexander Chee Coincidence Copy Share Image
“Ever since I’d been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull’s-eye painted on my… — Alexander Chee Old enough Copy Share Image
