Chang-Rae Lee
Related KARIN SLAUGHTER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON JOYCE CAROL OATES It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD ALAFAIR BURKE KIRAN DESAI PAUL SAMUELSON ANI DIFRANCO Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of... FLOYD SKLOOT PHIL KLAY In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived wit... FLOYD SKLOOT DAVID SEDARIS I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I hav... FAITH RINGGOLD 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissi... BARBARA COONEY I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Be... BEN MARCUS STEVEN WRIGHT HUGH JACKMAN VICTORIA LEGRAND I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and... DEREK HOUGH DONNIE YEN All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to ... GRAHAM NORTON JEFF LINDSAY KARIN SLAUGHTER RICHARD DAWKINS KARIN SLAUGHTER I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influ... DAVID ALMOND MARIANNE WILLIAMSON That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and ... AKON I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz peopl... HENRY THOMAS With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this w... IRVIN D. YALOM TESS GERRITSEN I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's ca... KAY GRANGER R. A. SALVATORE JACK CANFIELD JHUMPA LAHIRI AMY CHUA My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ... CHRISTOPHER JUDGE MARGARET GELLER STORMZY The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on ... RACHEL JOYCE JEH JOHNSON EMERIL LAGASSE WALE Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'l... PAUL INCE DIANNA AGRON CANELO ALVAREZ I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that.... CELINE DION GENE WILDER DEBBIE REYNOLDS I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravi... DAVID SHIELDS A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stor... MICHAEL FOREMAN GERALDINE BROOKS It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K.,... TEDDY SEARS I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't r... KRISTANNA LOKEN There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the fi... LIZZO A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories... STAN SAKAI PAUL WALKER I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-l... MALIK JACKSON When it came to 'Binge,' it wasn't my intention to get on a little soapbox and have a te... TYLER OAKLEY WIZ KHALIFA Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have t... BRUCE SMITH MARY BERRY I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation... SINEAD O'CONNOR When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he tr... DANIEL CORMIER There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in ... JO BEVERLEY Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses t... BOKEEM WOODBINE For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' ... LAURA BENANTI JOYCE CAROL OATES We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon ... OMI It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do i... GARRET DILLAHUNT The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if ... HENRY WILLIAMSON PSY Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and hav... GAIL Z. MARTIN DONALD RAY POLLOCK Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to... BEV PERDUE KATIE MCGRATH As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin... NATE RUESS During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn'... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I s... JOE ARPAIO To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that ... BUTCH TRUCKS DANICA MCKELLAR There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist.... SHANE CARRUTH It gets crazy in my mind sometimes but the reason why I like to express so much positivity on my Twi... JHENE AIKO As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my vo... SINEAD O'CONNOR TRACEE ELLIS ROSS ELMORE LEONARD C. S. LEWIS I'll get boxes full of books and objects from perfect strangers in the oddest places. Teachers w... DONALD BAECHLER I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have th... ADRIAN TOMINE JILL SCOTT TYGA I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different... BARBARA KRUGER I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's wri... BILL CALLAHAN
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IRIS CHANG Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe. IRIS CHANG Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else... IRIS CHANG The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments o... IRIS CHANG If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an eco... IRIS CHANG It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out... IRIS CHANG For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's... IRIS CHANG Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerou... IRIS CHANG We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also t... IRIS CHANG I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ... IRIS CHANG After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more a... IRIS CHANG When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. ... IRIS CHANG Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in ... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself,... IRIS CHANG There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engag... IRIS CHANG They probably do have an Asian Barbie. IRIS CHANG I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. IRIS CHANG DAVID CHANG DAVID CHANG MICHAEL CHANG CHAO CHANG KENNETH CHANG KENNETH CHANG DAVID CHANG DAVID CHANG MICHAEL CHANG DAVID CHANG If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all... JUNG CHANG When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything th... JUNG CHANG There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off chil... IRIS CHANG DAVID CHANG I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China b... JUNG CHANG DAVID CHANG MICHAEL CHANG There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people star... IRIS CHANG The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. IRIS CHANG MICHAEL CHANG DAVID CHANG DAVID CHANG DAVID CHANG DAVID CHANG DAVID CHANG Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. CHANG CH'AO Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof. CH'AO CHANG DAVID CHANG DAVID CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG DAVID CHANG The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th... IRIS CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies... EILEEN CHANG DAVID CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG While we like Malaysia, there's reason to like overseas more. DANNY CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG MICHAEL CHANG While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but dur... JUNG CHANG Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind... JUNG CHANG It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he ... JUNG CHANG We are always happy to launch a site directed by Jewel. Her sites are awesome, and our members love ... ARTHUR CHANG Our collaboration with Francesca resulted in our first DP site. We are working hard to diversify our... ARTHUR CHANG I thought Gingrich was quite impressive. He seems to have a good idea about how to solve a serious p... BENNY CHANG We invest very heavily in improving the code quality so we reduce the number of bugs the verificatio... BENNY CHANG We realize that we can't be perfect. The chips today are large and complex and have a lot of complex... BENNY CHANG In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master. 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They taught me different was wrong. 
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