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I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Active Anyone Assimilation Beginning Believe Brand Brand New Case Commencement Complete Entry Every Every Step Everyone Existence Flows Least Mind New New Way Oneself Open Open Mind Possible Seeing Seen Step Way Who World

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I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: About Entry Had Kind Korean Korean War Made Make Needs Novelist Sense Wanted War Write

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No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Admire Culture Offering Perfect Place Then Tropical Urban

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A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Angle Approach Comprehensive Even Itself Justify Language Novel Realist Rendering Requires Simply Social Special Structure Theme Whether

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One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Advantages Experience Mirrors Novel Quest Ready Road Story Writing

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For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Access Always Been Charms First Gain Great Kind Me Music Person Personal Private Very

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It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: About Because Everything Hard Iliad Knows Story Thinking War Without Write

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Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Being Blackness Broad Going Happen Idea Leap Little Maybe Novel Part Rash Really Sense Very Willing Writing You

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Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and maybe it's because I'm an immigrant kid and not white - there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Always Because Conscious Consciousness Enjoyed Even Everything Going Immigrant Kid Maybe Other Places Same Same Time Think Those Though Time Trappings White Yale I Think

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I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Art Assignments Classes Different Direction Doing Following Get Hated Remember Remember When Something Taking Totally Trouble Weird Would I Remember

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Biography

Nationality: South Korean

Type: Novelist

Born: July 29th, 1965

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