Race Quotes by Celeste Ng

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

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

“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

No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different.

— Celeste Ng

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

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

“I have measured my life with coffee spoons and do I dare to eat a peach?' 'DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?”

— Celeste Ng

“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

“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

“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

Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.

— Celeste Ng

“Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.”

— Celeste Ng

Writers, most of them, don't have a lot of resources.

— Celeste Ng

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

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