"Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk."

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"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim