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Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.

Chang-Rae Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south korean
Birth: July 29, 1965

Topics

Writing You Leap Happen Little

Seventh grade was the first time I dyed my hair, and I went to school with red and black stripes, so I looked like a zebra.

Jeffree Star

Time School Red Hair Black First

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Amanda Hearst

People Reality Doing Television Up

The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

David Souter

Change Constitution Facts Language

I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.

August Wilson

Best Ideas Book Think Literature

For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new houses of worship came to dominate the landscape. Yankee Stadium is the most storied of these contemporary shrines.

Thomas Hauser

Landscape Buildings Earth New Years

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

Tom Araya

Write Musically Just I Write Yeah

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

Richard Leakey

Hope Light Man Puzzle Walking Early

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

Mukesh Ambani

Together India Will China Demand

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Marianne Moore

Nature Stand Human Nature Human

There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.

Marshall Brickman

New York Advertising World Media New

People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.

Lydia Millet

Hate People City Rest Big City Big

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

Kris Kristofferson

Work Myself Focus Attention I Can