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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.
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As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
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I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
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I think my way of being funny is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.
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We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.
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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.
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There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.
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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like Can you read at this thing? And I say, Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.
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I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.
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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 you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.
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Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.
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Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.
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I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.
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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.
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