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Gene Luen Yang Quotes

We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: chinese
Birth: August 9, 1973

Topics

Writing Internet Wrong Say Afraid

Nothing is a calling card. Everything is what you do. If you do it in order to get somewhere else, you're not actually doing it. If you're thinking, 'What is the weird thing I want to make with my friends?' money and other things will come later.

John Cameron Mitchell

Money Thinking Weird Friends Doing

When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.

Fun Me Have Fun Perfect Try Makes

I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music.

Sturgill Simpson

Music Beautiful Man Want Pretty

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Problems Anxiety Hobby Create Crime

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.

Me Organization Win Think Wrong Try

When it comes to fighting and other fighters, I try to be respectful.

Fighting Try Respectful Fighters

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

Work Good Healing People Problems

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

Death Practice Support Death Penalty

I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.

Better Wish Help Understand More

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Hope Men Man Said Living Takes

I've never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

Book Never Big Guy Been Comic Book

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

Prayer Man Admit Big Pray Passive

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