quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston

""In a time of destruction, create something.""
— Maxine Hong Kingston

"This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read."
— Maxine Hong Kingston (Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book)

"...it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants."
— Maxine Hong Kingston (Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book)

"I tried to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes."
— Maxine Hong Kingston

"I tried to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. "
— Maxine Hong Kingston

"“The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.”"
— Maxine Hong Kingston (The Fifth Book of Peace)

"Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing."
— Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts)