Ken Liu quotes

“The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.”
-- Ken Liu

Source : Ken Liu (2016). “The Paper Menagerie”, p.382, Head of Zeus

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“We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others’ lives.”
-- Ken Liu

Source : Ken Liu (2016). “The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

“We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.”

“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”

“When one door opens, so does another one.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios

“She who means no mischief does it all.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135

“The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.”

“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”

“What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.”

“It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.”

Source : "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

“I love love stories, no matter how dark.”

“Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.”