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

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

— Min Jin Lee

“A woman's lot is to suffer.”

— Min Jin Lee

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

— Min Jin Lee

I love most New England towns.

— Min Jin Lee

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

— 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

“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

“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

Twenty-five million people who live in North Korea are denied freedom in every respect of their lives. In short, they are hostages.…

— Min Jin Lee

I think that what's bizarre to me about life is that sometimes you have to have everything taken away before you experience…

— Min Jin Lee

I find being an adult very difficult. Being an adult artist, Asian American, incredibly difficult. Or trying, anyway.

— Min Jin Lee

“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is…

— Min Jin Lee

“Our lives will be strange at first, but we’ll ask God for his blessing—on us and the child.” Sunja imagined that his…

— Min Jin Lee

I got married when I was 24 and met my husband when I was 22, so what I know about men in…

— Min Jin Lee

“What did Joseph say to his brothers who had sold him into slavery when he saw them again? “You intended to harm…

— Min Jin Lee

I suffer from an enormous amount of self-doubt, so the fact that 'Pachinko' has been so kindly received has encouraged me not…

— Min Jin Lee

“because she would not believe that she was no different than her parents, that seeing him as only Korean—good or bad—was the…

— 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 moved to Queens, New York, when I was seven and a half. I went to middle school in a foreign country,…

— Min Jin Lee

Koreans are worried about the Japanese right-wing people, who tend to be against foreigners. But the Koreans in Japan aren't even foreigners.…

— Min Jin Lee

After I quit being a lawyer in '95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa…

— 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

“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

“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

“[...] 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

“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

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

— Min Jin Lee

We need to recognize how difficult and important being a mother is.

— 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