Celeste Ng Quotes

Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style.

Celeste Ng

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I studied social studies at Harvard, which makes it sound like I was in seventh grade. It was a choose-your-own-adventure major, where you could decide what you were going to focus on.

Jennifer Hyman

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The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

John Ciardi

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In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.

Matthew Desmond

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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

Ann Brashares

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Sofi Tukker is truly Sophie and Tucker.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Steve Martin

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I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.

Simon Rattle

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In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.

Miuccia Prada

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Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Delmore Schwartz

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My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

Chris Hillman

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People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.

Chris Lilley

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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Chief Joseph

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