KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Celeste Ng Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Celeste Ng

Showing 21-30 of 99 Quotes by Celeste Ng

Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building empathy.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Authors Books Building Color Differently Empathy Great Great Way Horizons People Way Women

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Local politics is just as important as national - and often easier to influence.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Easier Important Influence Just Local National Often Politics

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In the case of 'Everything I Never Told You,' my goal was to make the experiences of a family that had always felt marginalised feel accessible and understandable even to people who'd never been in that situation.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Accessible Always Been Case Even Everything Experiences Family Feel Felt Goal Had Make Marginalised Never People Situation Understandable You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There's a great joy in writing about a place you know very well, but there's also a lot of responsibility in trying to be accurate. It's a lot like writing about a relative: you can see both their strengths and their shortcomings, and even as you want to be honest, you want people to see the good that's there as well.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: About Accurate Also Both Even Good Great Great Joy Honest Joy Know Like Lot People Place Relative Responsibility See Shortcomings Strengths To Be Honest Trying Very Want Well Writing You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have what it takes to write such a book.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Am Awe Book Honestly Myself Mystery Takes Think Thriller Write Writer Writers I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I am a first-generation Chinese-American; my husband is white. We have a little boy, so I think a lot about what it's like when people from different cultures and backgrounds start families, and how the world sees them. Most of my friends are in interracial relationships, and I just wonder what the world is going to look like for their children.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: About Am Backgrounds Boy Children Cultures Different Different Cultures Families Friends Going How Husband Just Like Little Look Lot Most People Relationships Sees Start Them Think White Wonder World I Think I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her name was Lily Mark, but she sometimes wrote under her confirmation name, Margaret Mark. That was how she met my father.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: China Column Confirmation Father Growing Growing Up Her Hong Kong How Kong Lily Margaret Mark Met Morning Mother Name Post She Sometimes South Teen Up Wrote 1950S

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: America Ancestors Because Came Century Father Had Him Immigrants Indiana Joined Late Later Laundry Mother Over Parents Studied Turn Typical Who Worked 1960S

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Because Biographies Books Did Give Give Me Interested Lot Marie Me Parents Read Them

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Engage Feeds Ideas New New Ideas Presents Reading Writing You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Celeste Ng on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Frederick Douglass
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Saint Teresa Of Avila Albert Camus Dale Carnegie Coco Chanel Zora Neale Hurston Bob Marley John C. Maxwell George Bernard Shaw

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1819 - George Eliot

1921 - Rodney Dangerfield

1943 - Billie Jean King

1744 - Abigail Adams

1856 - Heber J. Grant

1857 - George Gissing

1869 - Andre Gide

1890 - Charles De Gaulle

1899 - Hoagy Carmichael

1912 - Doris Duke

Birthdays on November 22nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Courage Dad Dating Failure Freedom God Thanksgiving Trust