#alanguageofourown

“Choose the important over the urgent. It’s good life advice, but also for writing... It’s also very good advice for dating. In this age of dating and Tinder.. think about it.” 😂 • “It’s readers who are holding up civilisation. Not writers.” • “I’d love to write really good screenplays... for action films.” - on what other genre she’d love to write • “As a child, I wanted to be a carpenter.” - in response to the question on what career she’d pursue if she wasn’t a writer or lawyer • “Chilli crab. Laksa. Chicken rice. - on three words to describe Singapore • We had a wondrous time in our Hour with Min Jin Lee yesterday. @lee_minjin 🤩 • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown #minjinlee (at Victoria Theatre Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4rq-rsHMrV/?igshid=dx71xxsvmot4

”我觉得很多powerful 的东西其实是很冷静，很克制的。” - Stanley Chen Qiufan 陈楸帆 • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown #stanleychen https://www.instagram.com/p/B4rkUCKnbfk/?igshid=957h61a8g3h1

Roxane Gay’s book signing session • If you missed out on Roxane’s book signing session earlier, you can still get her books signed after the Festival Gala: Language and the Body. • Please note that you will require a ticket to the Festival Gala: Language and The Body feat. Roxane Gay, Kagiso Lesego Molope and Joel Tan. VICTORIA THEATRE, SUNDAY 4PM. Show your festival pass to collect a ticket at The Arts House Information Counter. You will need to show both a festival pass and the ticket for entry! • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown (at Victoria Theatre Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4rI2Lbniou/?igshid=522a0scj4h9w

“People make a lot of prejudices about fat bodies. And it’s one of the last things that people still have prejudices about... people don’t seem to realise that it is a health issue, and some people don’t get to choose whether to be fat. And yet we demonize fat people for needing help, for needing healthcare. As though that’s not part and parcel of being human.” • “I know we’ve achieved success when black people can be mediocre.” • “Some men are confused about what we’re asking for. But it’s simple. We’re just asking you to not rape us. To not sexually harass us. To not cat-call us. Not asking us to smile because we have a resting bitch face. No... the bar is under the ground at the moment. Just step over it. Just be a decent human being.” - on men being confused over the feminist and #metoo movement • “Cancel culture does not exist... I’m more interested in Consequence culture. If you’ve made a mistake that’s egregious, you should be made to pay for it.” • “What’s important is to recognise it. To recognise what you’re doing. And to do better next time.” - on fat people fat-shaming • “Professionally, it’s having one of my screenplays made... I would also like to win a Pulitzer Prize. Y’know how some people say prizes don’t matter. That’s not true. Only people who don’t win say that. Prizes matter. I do want that recognition. I want to be good enough.” - on her bucket list, career-wise • Roxane Gay @roxanegay74 at her ‘In A Tiny Room With’ session at @theoldman_sg and her session on Understanding Identity Through Pop Culture • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown (at Victoria Theatre Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4rHniSHtFd/?igshid=egt0si8vh3wp

“It’s actually in white people’s interest to have less racism in our world. It’s a world that’s less radicalised, less de-stabilising.” • “Somehow, the core of the problem with recent issues is that white people are feeling dispossessed. Which is highly ironic.” • “We grew up fearing darkness. All the stories equated goodness and safety with the light. Since I was a child, all the stories I’ve heard equated good people with being white.” • Illuminating talk by Kamal Al-Solaylee on what being Brown in the world today means. • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown (at National Gallery Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4olBuiHptp/?igshid=1aml148kb0b78

Robin Leong @robinleong12 teaching kids and parents to find their chi with some simple kungfu exercises~! • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4okJpEnGEq/?igshid=dn34kqagvoru

“Are we authoring these texts or are our creations authoring these texts?” - Jacob Sam La Rose @jacobsamlarose on using AI to generate content • The Poem as Machine, also feat. Debbie Ding and Qamar Firdaus Saini @mightyriogrande • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4ogs12HsyM/?igshid=1nhn4ctkm8xma

“I think of loneliness as my friend... As a child, even though I was lonely all the time, I felt safety in that loneliness.” — Min Jin Lee • “The kind of communal loneliness here, it’s very real.” — Cyril Wong • “I find that there’s a lot of hope in not going through a traditional path. You can not go through a traditional path, you can create a map of the different kinds of things you wanna do.” — Chelene Knight • The Language of Loneliness at The Arts House • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown #minjinlee #cyrilwong #cheleneknight (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4m63FoHHUW/?igshid=1eakr1jhcpx8p