Ken Liu

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

People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the…

— Ken Liu

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment…

— Ken Liu

“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

— Ken Liu

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

— Ken Liu

“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.”

— Ken Liu

Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to…

— Ken Liu

“Dad and I went on walking, our shadows touching.”

— Ken Liu

“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish…

— Ken Liu

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job…

— Ken Liu

“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or…

— Ken Liu

Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do…

— Ken Liu

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

— Ken Liu

“By custom, we wield the sword and wear the armor, but who among you does not know a mother, sister, daughter, friend,…

— Ken Liu

My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're…

— Ken Liu

The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the…

— Ken Liu

“I would like a window seat,” I said, imagining the stars streaming by.”

— Ken Liu

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance,…

— Ken Liu

If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage…

— Ken Liu

Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a…

— Ken Liu

The 'Grace of Kings' begins as a very dark, complicated world filled with injustices - among them the oppressed position of women…

— Ken Liu

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

— Ken Liu

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

It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.

— Ken Liu

“ For every ebb there’s a flow; for every flow there’s an ebb. The full moon must wane just as the new…

— Ken Liu