Quotes by Gish Jen

Gish Jen

… there is … a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

Fun

Play

Writing

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Limits

Made

Men

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

Heart

Racism

White

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Anything Is Possible

Men

Mind

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Chinese

Needs

People

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

America

Creative

Groups

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Exception

Hate

I Hate

I like to listen. I’m much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

Listening

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

Climate

Males

Thinking

I’m trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

Ideas

People

White

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America

Another Way

Anything Is Possible

Art

Boredom

Chinese

Climate

Creative

Degrees

Ends

Exception

Fun

Groups

Hate

Heart

House

I Hate

Ideas

Imagine

Independent

Interdependence

Limits

Listening

Made

Males

May

Men

Mind

Needs

People

Play

Racism

Self

Stories

Suffering

Suicide

Thinking

Treasure

Understanding

Way

White

World

Would Be

Writing

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Quotes by Gish Jen

Gish Jen

… there is … a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

I like to listen. I’m much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

I’m trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

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