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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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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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 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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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 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 I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, did she say that out loud? kind of humor.
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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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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.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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 think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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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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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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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 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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