Quote

I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.

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
Whatever
Whether
Done
Good
Always
Things
Prestigious
Viewed

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
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
Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
Victoria Chang
Image
I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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
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 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
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
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'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'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
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
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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
I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
Victoria Chang
Image
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.
Victoria Chang
Image
People who are too uptight make me nervous.
Victoria Chang
Image
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
Image
I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
Victoria Chang