I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day. — Victoria Chang Ability Copy Share Image
I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read. — Victoria Chang Communication Copy Share Image
Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean. — Victoria Chang Mean Copy Share Image
I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up. — Victoria Chang Bottom Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap. — Victoria Chang Crap Copy Share Image
I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker. — Victoria Chang Fabric Copy Share Image
There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot.… — Victoria Chang Book Copy Share Image
It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person… — Victoria Chang Ashamed Copy Share Image
I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another… — Victoria Chang Book Copy Share Image
I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever. — Victoria Chang Done Copy Share Image
There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking… — Victoria Chang Attraction Copy Share Image
I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I… — Victoria Chang Being funny Copy Share Image
Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I… — Victoria Chang Certain Copy Share Image
I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish… — Victoria Chang Book Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Different Copy Share Image
I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to… — Victoria Chang Fun Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I… — Victoria Chang Ask me Copy Share Image
Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring… — Victoria Chang Boundaries Copy Share Image
I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that… — Victoria Chang Accepted Copy Share Image
I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is,… — Victoria Chang Coast Copy Share Image
I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things… — Victoria Chang Book Copy Share Image
I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is… — Victoria Chang Books Copy Share Image
My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing… — Victoria Chang Giving Copy Share Image
We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel… — Victoria Chang Contact Copy Share Image
I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and… — Victoria Chang Answers Copy Share Image
Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public,… — Victoria Chang Academia Copy Share Image
I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read… — Victoria Chang Book Copy Share Image
For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads. — Victoria Chang Art Copy Share Image
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. — Victoria Chang Felt Copy Share Image
I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before. — Victoria Chang Feel Copy Share Image
I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads… — Victoria Chang Close friends Copy Share Image
I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide. — Victoria Chang Committing suicide Copy Share Image
The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo — Victoria Chang Book Copy Share Image
I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither… — Victoria Chang Backgrounds Copy Share Image
Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction… — Victoria Chang Classic Copy Share Image
In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about… — Victoria Chang Impact Copy Share Image
I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have… — Victoria Chang Awhile Copy Share Image
