Books Quote by Ken Liu Download Open image “There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.” — Ken Liu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Chinese Like Me Replicate Way
I don't read in Chinese very well. Google Translate helps with that. It's cool that I can upload a photo and translate the text… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
“Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.” — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience. — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
The FEMALE who invented the sentence, All humans is similar Actually lost her chinese BOYFRIEND ina crowd in China....:D — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.” — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“Few Chinese who write can write all of the spoken Chinese words that they can understand. To become significantly learned in the Chinese writing… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“... the Chinese have become very good at coming up with puns, alternative words, and memes. For example, they talk about the battle between… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“In this respect, the Chinese written language has a slight advantage over our own, and is perhaps symptomatic of a different way of thinking.… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese. — Godfrey Gao Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image