Chang-Rae Lee Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.”

“I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.”

“Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.”

“Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.”

“My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.”

“No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.”

“To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.”

“We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.”

“I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.”

“I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people don't see me the way I see me. It doesn't change my life, but it gives me a consciousness about it.”