American - Author | 1980 -
I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.
Celeste Ng
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Somewhere in the Commandments of Reviewing must be written, 'Thou shalt not compare Asians to non-Asians.'
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If someone were to call me 'the next Amy Tan,' it would not be because - or not primarily because - we have similar themes or subjects or styles. Let's be honest: it would be because we are both Chinese American.
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Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.
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Gore isn't required for a good story, but adversity is.
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Stories work better when not everyone gets what they want.
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I play music on my phone to fall asleep when I'm on the road and as an alarm clock to wake me up, so I need it nearby - but there are never outlets by the bed in hotels!
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I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.
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The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local shopping mall.
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My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This was completely unnecessary, as I always got A's, and they bought me books all the time anyway, and we all knew it.
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Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.
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I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current - and I'm a terrible swimmer.
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