South Korean - Novelist | July 29, 1965 -
I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.
Chang-Rae Lee
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I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
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Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.
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We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to their obsessions while vigorously ignoring everything else.
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I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
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As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
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My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
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We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.
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What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.
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After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
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To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
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I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.
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