Top 25 Quotes by Chang-Rae Lee of 61 - Page 3

I rarely talk about work with writers, and I love getting together with writers. I think writers are great to get together with, because we can talk about everything. I think that's why I enjoy it. Writers tend to be

I rarely talk about work with writers, and I love getting together with writers. I think writers are great to get together with, because we can talk about everything. I think that's why I enjoy it. Writers tend to be pretty open-minded, and pretty profane and loose. They have fun minds.

Chang-Rae Lee

Fun, Thinking, Mind

Source: therumpus.net

Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

Chang-Rae Lee

Character, People, Personality

For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.

Chang-Rae Lee

Years, Tree, Littles

Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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

Chang-Rae Lee

Long, Korean, My Family

"In my census, boxes multiply into a blur" by Chang-rae Lee, www.cnn.com. March 31, 2010.

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.

Chang-Rae Lee

War, Writing, Novelists

Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. March 5, 2010.

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

Chang-Rae Lee

Perspective, Sometimes, Said

Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin