Susan Choi

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get…

— Susan Choi

“Coup de foudre; perhaps it was real. One went from believing, when twenty, that it was the one kind of love that…

— Susan Choi

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school.…

— Susan Choi

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

— Susan Choi

I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.'…

— Susan Choi

“So perhaps it was her grief I felt as I gazed on this child not mine, and not even much of a…

— Susan Choi

I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most…

— Susan Choi

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.…

— Susan Choi

It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty,…

— Susan Choi

“I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.”

— Susan Choi

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So…

— Susan Choi

“And I remembered now, too, my inadvertent youthful condescension, when the woman had said, apologizing for some information she couldn't recall, "I…

— Susan Choi

“Something crossed his face, a pure motion like wind over water--I couldn't have guessed what emotion it was. "I'll miss you," he…

— Susan Choi

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship…

— Susan Choi

“I couldn't let you believe we'd keep going, when we'd already lasted too long.”

— Susan Choi

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it…

— Susan Choi

“I had opened the obvious drawer, the top drawer of the room's only dresser, and found myself gazing into a masculine cache…

— Susan Choi

“My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up…

— Susan Choi

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

— Susan Choi

“Why are instants of reunion so empty? Perhaps because they are so anticipated, too muffled already at the moment of their coming…

— Susan Choi

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

— Susan Choi

“The very moment I admitted we were flirting, I lost patience for it.”

— Susan Choi

Ive at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, I would give anything for this not to be happening.…

— Susan Choi

“At the moment, I think we each genuinely believed ourselves to be the protagonist, and the other a naive and pardonable walk-on…

— Susan Choi

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on…

— Susan Choi