Min Jin Lee

I love most New England towns.

— Min Jin Lee

“People are awful. Drink some beer.” Haruki”

— Min Jin Lee

“No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.”

— Min Jin Lee

“A woman's lot is to suffer.”

— Min Jin Lee

I have romantic ideas about home and what it should mean.

— Min Jin Lee

“reading. His abundant meals were sent to his room on a”

— Min Jin Lee

“And Mozasu? He is Baek Isak’s son? He doesn’t look like me.” Sunja”

— Min Jin Lee

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

— Min Jin Lee

“We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.”

— Min Jin Lee

You really should respect other people's work because work is hard-won.

— Min Jin Lee

For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important.

— Min Jin Lee

I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.

— Min Jin Lee

“My life is nothing. It wouldn’t have any meaning without putting it to good use. Don’t you think?”

— Min Jin Lee

“Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.” Noa”

— Min Jin Lee

If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love.…

— Min Jin Lee

“Don't do what I do but what you think is right. But whatever you do, you can't keep yourself from getting hurt.…

— Min Jin Lee

“People are rotten everywhere you go. They’re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful…

— Min Jin Lee

“In Seoul, people like me get called Japanese bastards, and in Japan, I'm just another dirty Korean no matter how much money…

— Min Jin Lee

I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough,…

— Min Jin Lee

I don't hold any contempt for people who are practicing law. I know how hard it is, I know how hard they…

— Min Jin Lee

The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling…

— Min Jin Lee

“But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too…

— Min Jin Lee

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction…

— Min Jin Lee

“You have the kindest father in the land,” her mother would often remark, and Sunja had been proud of his love for…

— Min Jin Lee

“It wasn't uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort--the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to…

— Min Jin Lee

As a woman of colour, as a person who is a minority, I believe its important that other people know about my…

— Min Jin Lee

I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their…

— Min Jin Lee

We have huge holes in our education in the West. I think that we have little knowledge of Asian history. If you…

— Min Jin Lee

Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian…

— Min Jin Lee

“His Presbyterian minster father had believed in a divine design, and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player…

— Min Jin Lee

“[...] I talk to the dead although I don't believe in ghosts. But it makes me feel good to speak with them.…

— Min Jin Lee

“Clothing was magic. Casey believed this. She would never admit this to her classmates in any of her women's studies courses, but…

— Min Jin Lee

“Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much…

— Min Jin Lee

“who’d spent most of his life indoors with books. Sunja carried in a low dinner table for him, its small surface covered…

— Min Jin Lee

“Sunja-ya, a woman’s life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It’s better to expect it, you…

— Min Jin Lee

“Noa stared at her. She would always believe that he was someone else, that he wasn't himself but some fanciful idea of…

— Min Jin Lee

I believe there is meaning in life. I believe there is good and evil.

— Min Jin Lee

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

— Min Jin Lee

“that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that”

— Min Jin Lee

There's a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now.

— Min Jin Lee