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When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Assume Automatically Cannot Fact Fiction Read Reading We Cannot

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Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the other to survive.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Books Destroy Electronic Fiction Need Nonfiction Novel Opposites Other Short Survive Texts To Survive

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You may not be a fan of Twitter-fiction. That's okay. There are novels out there for you - big ones.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Big Big Ones Fan May Novels Okay Out You

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The proliferation of styles, genres, and media need not be the death knell of anything. Instead, it's a sign that our acceptance for variation and experimentation has become wider, our interests have become more diverse, and our appetites have become more omnivorous.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Acceptance Anything Appetites Become Death Diverse Experimentation Genres Instead Interests Media More Need Our Proliferation Sign Styles Variation Wider

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Growing up, I loved looking at the photos in my mother's old Betty Crocker cookbook: the chocolate cakes, the cookie house, even the cheese balls and fondues.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Balls Betty Cakes Cheese Chocolate Cookbook Cookie Even Growing Growing Up House Looking Loved Mother Old Photos Up

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My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Deeply Had Immigrant Made Mother Nature Perhaps Pragmatic You

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When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Another Bachelor Back Degree Environmental Father Finished His Mother Science Time

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My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Became Chemistry Ended Eventually Getting Her Mother Own Professor Up

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Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read hundreds and hundreds of books a year say, 'Hey, we thought this was really great,' that's a huge self-esteem boost.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Back Big Big Deal Books Boost Deal Great Hey Huge Hundreds Like People Read Really Say Self-Esteem Shouting Someone Thought Who World Writing Year

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Writers, most of them, don't have a lot of resources.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Lot Most Resources Them Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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