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November 29, 2007
- I wanted to try things—everything—especially things that are illegal and have a whiff of glamour.
–Me, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, August 25th, 2004
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November 29, 2007
- I’ve known people who have had some success, and the next thing you know, you can’t reach them. It’s like they drop off the map, at least socially. I still live in North Oakland; I’m still invested in the community.
–Me, quoted in the San Francisco Examiner, November 19th, 1998
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November 29, 2007
- As a writer, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show that I (along with the hundreds of thousands of immigrants like me) am minute by minute transforming America. The transformation is a two-way process: It affects both the individual and the national-cultural identity.
Others who write stories of migration often talk of arrival ...
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November 29, 2007
- If I write a book a year and I live to be threescore and ten, my mortal span, I will still run out of years before I finish all the books I have in my head.
–Me, quoted in The New York Times Magazine , October 13th, 2002
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November 29, 2007
- What I do is I take you by the hand and you see the world through my eight-year-old eyes.
–Me, quoted in The New York Times, February 26th, 2006
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