Quote

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.

Victoria Chang

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
Blogger
Investment Banker
Poet
Writer
Already
Hypocrisies
Point
Poking
Desire
Clusters
Something
Awkwardness
Expose
Hypocrisy
Attraction
Emotional

More quotes by Victoria Chang

Image
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.
Victoria Chang
Image
I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
Victoria Chang
Image
In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.
Victoria Chang
Image
I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.
Victoria Chang
Image
Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, did she say that out loud? kind of humor.
Victoria Chang