One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like bankers and teachers, and I actually try to steer our talk away from my work when I get together with them.
The truth, finally, is who can tell it. - Chang-Rae Lee
The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
- Chang-Rae Lee
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately. - Chang-Rae Lee
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through tim… - Chang-Rae Lee
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through tim…
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday. - Chang-Rae Lee
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.
Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness… - Chang-Rae Lee
Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness…
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad s… - Chang-Rae Lee
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad s…
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages … - Chang-Rae Lee
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages …
Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to. - Chang-Rae Lee
Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.
It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not. - Chang-Rae Lee
It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
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