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In 2011, I didn't read a single book.

~Celeste Ng

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Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.

~Celeste Ng

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As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

~Celeste Ng

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Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.

~Celeste Ng

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Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.

~Celeste Ng

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My husband's parents were both English teachers for decades.

~Celeste Ng

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Before my son was even born, he already had two shelves of books.

~Celeste Ng

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Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

~Celeste Ng

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Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.

~Celeste Ng

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Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for Dummies.

~Celeste Ng

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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