Tao Lin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.”

“I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.”

“I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.”

“My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.”

“I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.”

“A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.”

“I like most any place if I have Internet access.”

“I like part-time jobs in restaurants.”

“I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.”

“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.'”