American - Author | 1980 -
It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.
Celeste Ng
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In 2011, I didn't read a single book.
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Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.
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As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.
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Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.
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My husband's parents were both English teachers for decades.
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Before my son was even born, he already had two shelves of books.
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Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.
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Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.
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Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for Dummies.
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When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.
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Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the other to survive.
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