Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“There is something universally chilling about a new plot. And I could see how my boy needed time and space for a… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“...it seems to me that life's moments don't have to be so right or not right anymore, so fraught and weighted with… — 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
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Moment to moment, we act freely, we make decisions and form opinions and there is very little to throttle us. We think… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“And perhaps most I loved this about her, her helpless way, love it still, how she can't hide a single thing, that… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
“I wonder if my father, given the chance, would have wished to go back to the time before he made all that… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want… — 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
