Literary Birthday – 9 July – Jamie Ford

Happy Birthday, Jamie Ford, born on 9 July 1968.

Jamie Ford Quotes

1. If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I’m doing something wrong.
2. I try not to live in the past…but…sometimes the past lives in me.
3. Some things just can’t be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can’t make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.
4. The hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and what’s wrong but between what’s right and what’s best.
5. The library is like a candy store where everything is free.
6. There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.
7. As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

Jamie Ford is an American author. He won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His work has been translated into 35 languages. He is best known for his debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list. His latest novel is The Many Daughters of Afong Moy. His stories have also been included in Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology and The Apocalypse Triptych, a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction where Ford wrote Asian-themed steampunk. Follow him on Instagram.

Photo credit: Eric Heidle

by Amanda Patterson
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