When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“He asked if there were more things she had lied about. She said she had to think. She said she was still… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to… — Tao Lin Character Copy Share Image
I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and… — Tao Lin 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'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
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
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
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
“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 think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the… — Tao Lin Brain Copy Share Image
If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things… — Tao Lin Computer Copy Share Image
“The hamster friend said being able to do front rolls didn't make the hamster as good as Bruce Lee, which was not… — Tao Lin Friendship Copy Share Image
“Colin didn’t want to go back to his room. He walked around for a very long time, looking down at the sidewalks… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“- ¿No te parece a veces que vivir en el mundo es como una mierda? - ¿A qué te refieres? - dijo… — Tao Lin Amor Copy Share Image
“The late-afternoon sky, in Paul's peripheral vision, panoramic and mostly unobstructed, appeared rural or suburban, more indicative of forests and fields and… — Tao Lin Dreams Copy Share Image
“i will learn how to love a person and then i will teach you and then we will know" seen from a… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life… — Tao Lin Alive Copy Share Image
“When he heard laughter, before he could think or feel anything, his heart would already be beating like he’d sprinted twenty yards.… — Tao Lin Anxiety Copy Share Image
Most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection… — Tao Lin Age Copy Share Image
I think Gmail chats are different than IRL conversations because Gmail chats are saved by Gmail exactly as they occurred. I like… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Books Copy Share Image
“It was a face that said, “Fuck the world,” but said it reluctantly, and tonelessly, and then apologized, said “Sorry,” but said… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat… — Tao Lin Asian Copy Share Image
“He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an… — Tao Lin Life 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
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't… — Tao Lin Book 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
It sometimes seemed 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
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was… — Tao Lin Agony Copy Share Image
It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
![“Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is…” quote by Tao Lin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/tao-lin-3279_alive_death-is-the-end-of-the-fear-of-death-to_342016.png)
![“Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things…” quote by Tao Lin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d5/tao-lin-3279_asian_focusing-on-being-a-person-instead-of-an_1012455.jpg)
![“My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."” quote by Tao Lin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/124/tao-lin-3279_book_my-publisher-had-mailed-bret-easton-elli_1492010.png)
