About Quote by 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 movement that…

— 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 or omission.…

— 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 the result.

— 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 to teach.”

— Ken Liu

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

— 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 a company.”

— Ken Liu

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

— Ken Liu