Quote

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

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
Sometimes
Feels
Like
World
Mornings
Crap
Morning
Feel

More quotes by 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
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
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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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 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
The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo
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
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
I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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
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
Image
I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
Victoria Chang
Image
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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