Zitat des Tages von Tao Lin:
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
