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I am not a contest-enterer by nature. But contests - and their entry fees - are often the main way literary journals raise money to, you know, publish their issues. So entering contests helps support the journal, which also helps support the writers they publish.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Also Am Contests Entering Entry Fees Helps Issues Journal Journals Know Literary Main Money Nature Often Publish Raise Support Way Which Writers You I Am

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Buying new books supports the writer by providing both a royalty and an audience; a writer whose book sells well has a better chance of selling another.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Another Audience Better Better Chance Book Books Both Buying Chance New Providing Royalty Selling Sells Supports Well Whose Writer

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Every writer needs new material now and then, whether it's traveling to Japan, volunteering at a food bank, learning a new language, or trying a new food.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Bank Every Food Japan Language Learning Material Needs New New Material Now Now And Then Then Traveling Trying Whether Writer

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A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a flower, and sometimes with a quick knife-slice.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Amazing Amazing Thing Articulate Blooming Distilled Flower Good Like Moment Opens Perfectly Poem Quick Slowly Sometimes Thing Up You

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Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings are amazing: you get to hear the book in the author's own voice, ask questions, and meet the writer. For free.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Amazing Ask Author Authors Bars Book Bookstores Country Day Every Every Single Day Free Get Hear Libraries Meet Over Own Questions Read Readings Single Single Day Voice Writer You

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What's the best way to ensure a supply of good books in the future? Support up-and-coming writers now.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Best Best Way Books Ensure Future Good Now Supply Support Way Writers

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I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.

~Celeste Ng

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Somewhere in the Commandments of Reviewing must be written, 'Thou shalt not compare Asians to non-Asians.'

~Celeste Ng

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If someone were to call me 'the next Amy Tan,' it would not be because - or not primarily because - we have similar themes or subjects or styles. Let's be honest: it would be because we are both Chinese American.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: American Amy Because Both Call Chinese Honest Me Next Primarily Similar Someone Styles Subjects Tan Themes Were Would

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Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Asian Comparing Implies Mainly Other Same Same Story Story Telling View Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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