A biography for Mary H.K. Choihasn’t been written yet.
“People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at.”
“I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them.”
“Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.”
“'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap.”
“The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back.”
“Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.”
“SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it.”
“I suspect that living 24/7 in workout attire is the clothing version of the messy topknot. We all know that your hair is dirty, or too long, or too frizzy, or your roots have grown out, but we are all going to accept it as fabulous because that's the deal.”
“I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.”
“The notion of this 'emergency contact' is, Do you have someone who is holding you down? Do you know where to go if you're feeling bad? I keep likening it to assigning yourself a godparent of your choosing.”
“Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger.”
“The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.”
“Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower.”
“I just love the comics industry.”
“I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.”
“Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses.”
“Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.”
“Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?”