Quotes by Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

Book

Degrees

Differences

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 for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can’t help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone’s so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

Hopeful

Practice

Sorry

As for what’s the most challenging aspect of teaching, it’s convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Challenges

Reading

Teaching

Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.

Culture

People

Writing

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

Mind

Sanctuary

Vices

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.

Littles

Tree

Years

For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.

Believe

Couple

Wall

I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it’s a departure, and it’s a dystopian kind of thing, and that’s natural, of course. But it’s surprised me – not even surprised me, but it’s pleased me – how much people have been responding to the way the book was written.

Book

People

Years

I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period – 1950-1956 – and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI’s and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.

Reading

Rivers

Village

I don’t think that stuff is gone – I just don’t want to dwell on it. There’s a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.

Differences

Gone

Thinking

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Asian

Believe

Book

Born

Challenges

Character

Commodity

Concern

Couple

Culture

Degrees

Differences

Eras

Father

Frustrated

Fun

Giving

Gone

Hopeful

Ideas

Imagination

Limitless

Littles

Maps

Mean

Might

Mind

Novelists

Offering

Pages

Past

People

Perfect

Practice

Preparation

Race

Reading

Real

Rivers

Roots

Sanctuary

Should

Sorry

Struggle

Teacher

Teaching

Thinking

Tree

Trying

Vices

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Quotes by Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

As for what’s the most challenging aspect of teaching, it’s convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.

I don’t think that stuff is gone – I just don’t want to dwell on it. There’s a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.

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