The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- 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

Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.

- 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 …

- 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…

- Chang-Rae Lee

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

- Chang-Rae Lee