“Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with… — Tao Lin Eyes Copy Share Image
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“I felt confused, to some degree, by everything—but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort… — Tao Lin Alive Copy Share Image
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“The gate has a secret passcode. Sara has a secret passcode. She should. Andrew would stand there for years trying combinations. He… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“as a teenager i experienced existential despair as an unsexy sensation of repressed orgasm in the chest; today i experience existential despair… — Tao Lin Existentialism Copy Share Image
If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Don't be stupid and awkward," the dolphin says. "You want to walk together or not?" "You are a stupid piece of shit.… — tao lin Dolphin Copy Share Image
He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and… — Tao Lin Consciousness Copy Share Image
I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“I won,” said Chelsea’s dad, and went to give Chelsea a high-five, but missed, as they were standing too close. “My fault,”… — Tao Lin Dads Copy Share Image
“It was a year, that year, Ellen knew, as she’d noticed from her 10th grade classmates and from observing her family —… — Tao Lin Family Copy Share Image
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long… — Tao Lin Alive Copy Share Image
“Paul thought of how they'd kept delaying buying plane tickets to visit his parents in Taiwan - in December, which was next… — Tao Lin Learning Copy Share Image
“I think you like other things better than me," he said on Gmail chat that night. "I mean generally you like things… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“After untangling a cord, then moving the MacBook to the floor, Paul lay beside Erin and meekly pawed her forearm three times,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“The bear makes a fist, slowly moves the fist to Andrew's face, touches Andrew's face with the knuckles, with its other hand… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I actually don't have...opinions. I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. I can discern that… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I like Bret Easton Ellis' sense of humor. I feel like mine is sometimes similar to his. And how his characters sometimes… — Tao Lin Character Copy Share Image
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“It sometime occurred to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the… — Tao Lin Comedy Copy Share Image
I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t… — Tao Lin Alive Copy Share Image
I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
While other rich people might be like, "Once I'm rich I'm going to go on a vacation to wherever," but instead they… — Tao Lin Flying Copy Share Image
“Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and… — Tao Lin Behavior Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about… — Tao Lin Character Copy Share Image
The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and… — Tao Lin Bad idea Copy Share Image
![“If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would have more money, I think. I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view [anything] as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or…” quote by Tao Lin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff1/tao-lin-3279_agents_if-i-focused-hard-on-getting-a-literary_3167627.jpg)
