5 Quotes by Ocean Vuong That Make You Rethink Writing and Language
From the mind behind On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong is an award-winning poet and author who brought us the masterpieces called On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Night Sky With Exit Wounds. In a previous article, I mentioned that the prior was the novel that made me continue writing. Ocean Vuong, ultimately, is my writing mentor and inspiration.
Consequently, I’d want more people to know about him and be benefited from his writing. So here are 5 quotes by Ocean Vuong that will make you rethink writing and language, taken from his first novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and his interview with On Being.
“You once told me that the human eye is god’s loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn’t even know there’s another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
This excerpt from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous was the reason why I bought this book right away. I was stunned by…
