When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Every writer needs new material now and then, whether it's traveling to Japan, volunteering at a food bank, learning a new language,… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
My husband really treats my writing like it's a job - and he reminds me of that when I have those low… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
What you look for as a reader is somebody who is going to take you and say, 'C'mon. Come into the story.… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
One of the most fun things for me, as a writer, is when readers ask questions like, 'Oh, I noticed that you… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they're doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Buying new books supports the writer by providing both a royalty and an audience; a writer whose book sells well has a… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
There's a great joy in writing about a place you know very well, but there's also a lot of responsibility in trying… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these… — Celeste Ng Copy Share
It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share
“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or… — Celeste Ng Copy Share
No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different. — Celeste Ng Copy Share
Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works. — Celeste Ng Copy Share
We have to figure out why we see the world in different ways and then how are we going to adjust so that we… — Celeste Ng Copy Share
“I have measured my life with coffee spoons and do I dare to eat a peach?' 'DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?” — Celeste Ng Copy Share
“No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more… — Celeste Ng Copy Share
“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry… — Celeste Ng Copy Share
“Though she would never quite articulate it this way, resentment began to sheathe concern. ANGER IS FEAR'S BODYGUARD, a poster in the hospital hard… — Celeste Ng Copy Share
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion. — Celeste Ng Copy Share
“Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.” — Celeste Ng Copy Share
Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people. — Celeste Ng Copy Share
Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking… — Celeste Ng Copy Share
