Tao Lin Quotations

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

I like most any place if I have Internet access.

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 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.

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

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

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 haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.