I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?