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My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.

Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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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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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'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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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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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'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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 done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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