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“But Athena is the reason for any modicum of excuses I’ve ever had. My career as an author does not exist without her.
Without Athena, who am I?”

RF Kuang, you are the queen of haunting the narrative

“What more can we want as writers than such immortality? Don’t ghosts just want to be remembered?”

“Mom has always had the particular ability to reduce all my aspirations to trivial obsessions with a simple disinterested question.”

“And once you’re writing for the market, it doesn’t matter what stories are burning inside you. It matters what audiences want to see and no one cares about the inner musings of a plain, straight while girl from Philly

“I think it’s very dangerous to start censoring what authors should and shouldn’t write.
I’d hate to live in a world where we tell people what they should and shouldn’t write based on the color of their skin”