Alexander Chee Quotes

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

Alexander Chee

Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as...

Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as...

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Tags: voice, she, her

About Author

Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.
Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My mid...

Alexander Chee

My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My mid...

Alexander Chee

Tags: art, women, mother

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

Alexander Chee

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

Alexander Chee

Tags: work, me, person

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rock...

Alexander Chee

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rock...

Alexander Chee

Tags: water, blue, dark

What would you read to someone who was dying? Annie Dillard had asked our class. She wanted this to be the standard for our work. There, at the memorial service for my friend, I thought of another: Dy...

Alexander Chee

What would you read to someone who was dying? Annie Dillard had asked our class. She wanted this to be the standard for our work. There, at the memorial service for my friend, I thought of another: Dy...

Alexander Chee