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Crystal Chan

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Born

in The United States

Website

http://crystalchanwrites.com/

Influences

J.D. Salinger, starry night skies

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March 2012

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Crystal Chan watched with amazement at the exotic zoo outbreak in Zanesville, Ohio in 2011, where scores of animals—hungry lions, panthers, and tigers—ran loose around the county. That incident helped inspire her most recent novel, All That I Can Fix. When Crystal isn’t writing, her passion is giving diversity talks to adults and kids alike, telling stories on Wisconsin Public Radio, and hosting conversations on social media. Her debut novel, Bird, was published in nine countries and is available on audiobook in the US. She is the parent of a teenage turtle (not a ninja).

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	Bird 4.05 avg rating — 2,159 ratings — published 2014 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All That I Can Fix 3.55 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manga Classics: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Stacy King (Goodreads Author), William Shakespeare, Po Tse (Illustrator ) 3.84 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter (Paperback) (3) (Manga Classics: Paperback) by Crystal Chan (Goodreads Author) (Adapter), SunNeko Lee (Artist), Nathaniel Hawthorne really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	England by Harlinah Whyte, Crystal Chan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mini Chinese Dictionary: Chinese-English English-Chinese by Jiageng Fan (Primary Contributor), Crystal Chan (Goodreads Author) (Primary Contributor), Philip Yungkin Lee (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“That's one of the things about adults: the most important rules to keep are the ones they never tell you and the ones they get the angriest about if you break.”
― Crystal Chan, Bird

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“If you give up too much of yourself, too fast, then someone can just up and take it away.”
― Crystal Chan, Bird

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“It's almost as if we're afraid of words. They hang in the air, unspoken, and then seeing that they're not going to be used, they shrivel and die.”
― Crystal Chan, Bird

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of answering which we hope isn't arrogant or discouraging. What I usually say is ‘I don't know where they come from, but I know where they come to: they come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.”
― Philip Pullman

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“To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.”
― Tom Bissell

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