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Ken Liu Quotes

I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

Topics

Best Mind Writing Society Enough

When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is odd, because I was a full-grown woman, and my hair was short and blond. Still, sitting on the black leather sofa in his chambers, I remember shrinking.

Woman Child Hair Small Black Short

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Live Age Growing Anonymity Going

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

John Foster Dulles

Face Brink Looked Walked

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Andrew Carnegie

Men Compromise Strong Know Serve

My scripts, they're pretty serious. I basically just describe stuff. I don't put too many notes and letters to the editors. But when I wrote 'KGBLT,' in parentheses I wrote, 'Well this is the best thing I've ever written. It will all be downhill from here. I'm so sorry for the rest of my career.'

Best Sorry Rest Career Serious Will

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.

Change Want Living Era Part

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.

Good Red Me Someone Go Cry

That's where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it's the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there with a good team behind you and have a part you want to audition for really makes it a joy.

Luke Pasqualino

Good Dreams Opportunity Joy Team Go

Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.

Home Person Circus Never Big Stay

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Culture Politics People You Look

Because I'm not trying to throw people any curves.

People Curves Trying Because Throw

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

Today Story Famous Year Ring Top

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