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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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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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Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.
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I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.
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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've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.
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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 think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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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I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.
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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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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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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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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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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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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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I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.
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I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.
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I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.
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I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.
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