Identity Quote by Lan Samantha Chang Download Open image ““She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.”” — Lan Samantha Chang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity Novelists Self-absorbtion
“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“It’s the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.” — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.” — Dorothy Gallagher Copy Share Image
“We are captivated by the feminine shadow of the self we might have been; in my case by that counterpart of the romantic writer who should have had the courage to reject society and to accept poverty for the sake of the development of his personality. Now when I see such beings I hope that I can somehow be freed… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“It's because of the way you are. It's why you're happy reading novels. You're only comfortable with a piece of the world that you… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by yuanfen?" She thought for a minute and replied, "It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
“For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world,… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
“For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.” — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young. — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
“The inner Min starved; she woke in the middle of the night, then lay for hours wondering what was wrong.” — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
“Who would one rather be? The one who desires, or the object of desire? One's answer to this question might determine if he is… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
“After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
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