After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
It's just a weird idea to me because each book is a complete universe unto itself, so why would I want this… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
“I would give most anything to hear my father's talk again, the crash and bang and stop of his language, always hurtling by. I… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share
We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew.… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
Usually, when you're talking about work with other writers it's because something seriously bad is going on with your work and you've absolutely thrown… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
