Chang-Rae Lee Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Chang-Rae Lee quotes and sayings page 3 (novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 41 we have.
“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.”
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