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My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

~Chang-Rae Lee

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I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

~Chang-Rae Lee

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We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Arrived Came Did Families Father First Followed Later Me Most Mother Rest Sister Us Way Year Year Later

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I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Against Because Good Had Head Leave Left Love Nature Numbers Pretty Pretty Good Street Wall Wall Street Work Writing

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I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

~Chang-Rae Lee

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I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Anytime Anywhere Book Enjoyed Everything Flights Happily Ideas Immerse Longer Much Myself Now Perspectives Pretty Read Reading Really Rhythms Submit While World

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I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Anything Consider Loose Me Might People Prose Quality Read Reader Seem Suppose Thinking Willing

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In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.

~Chang-Rae Lee

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Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

~Chang-Rae Lee

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I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Challenge Decent Happens Having Improvisation Like Limitation Meal Pretty Put Refrigerator Rigor Risk Sometimes Sort Take Together Whatever I Can

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Biography

Nationality: South Korean

Type: Novelist

Born: July 29th, 1965

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