Chang Rae Lee Inspirational Quotes (29)

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.