I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
It's not that I wrote those details, but photos can give you the confidence that you have a real feel for the… — 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
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
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
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