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Madeleine Thien Quotes

born 1974 Canada

Madeleine Thien (born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.

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My mother used to say that my tones are all crooked: it’s like hearing a song sung out of tune.

It’s one of those places you can never quite see enough of it, it’s vast. For the Chinese it’s very odd for people to travel alone so I often get picked up by families and couples. You learn a lot from what people don’t tell you.

…There are numerous sensitive subjects in China, and writers there have to make decisions about how they’re going to create in these conditions. The resulting literature is fascinating, full of docu-fiction, allegory, and everything in-between…

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Madeleine Thien (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.