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Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean
Author
First
Love
Me
People
Time
You
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My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.
Mary H.K. Choi
Words
Sweet
Writer
Spot
Essayist
You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Writing
Fraud
Hack
Feel
Like
Always
How
Goes
Just
My brother's in comics. I work in media.
Mary H.K. Choi
Work
Brother
Comics
Media
As a consumer, I love superheroes.
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
Superheroes
Consumer
I just love the comics industry.
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
Industry
Comics
Just
I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled.
Mary H.K. Choi
Words
Internet
Cynical
Think
Everyone
Paper
More
Tend
Pick
Lot
Commit
Apart
There's a really generous readership with YA.
Mary H.K. Choi
Generous
Ya
Readership
Really
I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person.
Mary H.K. Choi
Kid
Definitely
Inside
Indoor
Person
Turned
Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.
Mary H.K. Choi
Life
Stage
Teen
Has-Been
Invented
Since
Tradition
Been
Discrete
Notion
Popularity
Position
The notion of this 'emergency contact' is, Do you have someone who is holding you down? Do you know where to go if you're feeling bad? I keep likening it to assigning yourself a godparent of your choosing.
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Yourself
Feeling
Holding
Down
Bad
Someone
Emergency
Contact
Do You Know
Know
Go
Where
Your
Notion
Choosing
Who
Keep
Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other.
Mary H.K. Choi
You
People
Will
Other
Incredibly
Panic
Emails
Immediate
Ways
Those
Unread
Attack
Know
Most
Talk
Call
Because
Least
Texting
Anxious
Where
Little
Them
Who
Each
Humans
Nightmare
There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.
Mary H.K. Choi
People
Focus
Girl
Practice
Difficult
Way
Crippled
See
Put
Makes
Been
Self-Sufficiency
Self-Sufficient
Lot
Very
Closer
Suspected
Being
Younger
Ask
Much
Asking
Notion
Help
Actually
Things
Brings
The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.
Mary H.K. Choi
Time
You
Age
Book
Year
Living
Everyone
About
Weddings
Writer
Feels
Invited
New
Like
Hit
York
Same
Same Time
New York
Where
Twenty
Thing
Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.
Mary H.K. Choi
Me
Together
Army
People
Will
Enough
Hopefully
Write
Get
Fiction
Fan
I find texting to be kind of a safe space.
Mary H.K. Choi
Be Kind
Space
Kind
Find
Safe
Texting
Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different.
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
Mom
You
Love Is
Communication
Mother
Language
First
Fall
Other
Carries
Case
Almost
Baggage
Because
First-Person
Always
Conditional
Cultural
Times
Forever
Person
Different
Place
Your
Barrier
Fundamentally
Loaded
In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.
Mary H.K. Choi
Depression
Good
You
Experience
Anxiety
Emergency
Contact
Empathy
Lot
Personal
Personal Experience
Often
Order
Trauma
Need
Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.
Mary H.K. Choi
You
People
Wonderful
Will
Reading
Other
Aloud
Who
Suffer
I suspect that living 24/7 in workout attire is the clothing version of the messy topknot. We all know that your hair is dirty, or too long, or too frizzy, or your roots have grown out, but we are all going to accept it as fabulous because that's the deal.
Mary H.K. Choi
Long
Hair
Living
Too
Out
Fabulous
Dirty
Attire
Know
Accept
Because
Messy
Deal
Version
Suspect
Going
Clothing
Roots
Your
Workout
Grown
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