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My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Family Inhabited Korean Long Our Predecessors Recalled

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We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Census Count Course Every Interests Know Last Limited Massive More Point Project Resident Us

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What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: About Different Enjoy Enough Entertained Familiar Fun Give Novel Only Pause Recognizable Right Slightly Us World

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After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: After Book College Even Failure Finishing Honest Hoped Huge Knew Living Never New New York Novel Think To Be Honest Work Would Wrote York I Think

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To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Fiction Honest Korean Little Much Reader Since To Be Honest Translated

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I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Assignments Comfortable Exercises Get Go Like Novel Often People Short Think Too Use Vein Write Writing You I Think

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I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't believe in chemical enhancement of my writing. Just slight, but nothing crazy.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Believe Breaks Chemical Computer Crazy Enhancement Green Guess Just Make Myself Nothing Slight Something Tea Too Want Write Writing I Write

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Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: About Most Much People Race Think

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I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people don't see me the way I see me. It doesn't change my life, but it gives me a consciousness about it.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: About America Change Consciousness Every Feel Gives Life Me My Life Once People Reminded See Uncomfortable Way While I See

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We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Agents Community Family Grow Grow Up Idea Individual Like Live Make Money Need Our Place Satellite Tv Up Whether Work You

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Biography

Nationality: South Korean

Type: Novelist

Born: July 29th, 1965

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