Best quotes by Ken Liu on Me

Checkout quotes by Ken Liu on Me

• ‟ I think writing novels has taught me more about the value of patience and being organized. I've learned to use timelines and wikis to track decisions and make sure everything still fits together. It's both easier and harder than writing short fiction.

  - Ken Liu
  

• ‟ What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's 'Iliad,' I can see parallels in Chinese historical romances, in the way the first emperor of the Han dynasty and his chief rival are portrayed.

  - Ken Liu
  

• ‟ For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of the complexity of the politics and the 'surprisingly modern' reactions of the historical figures to recurrent problems of state administration.

  - Ken Liu
  

• ‟ There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.

  - Ken Liu
  

• ‟ In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.

  - Ken Liu
  

• ‟ The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

  - Ken Liu
  

• ‟ For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

  - Ken Liu