Chang-Rae Lee quote: "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."

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
CHANG-RAE LEE

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, op...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who...
CHANG-RAE LEE

Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writin...
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I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physicia...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caf...
CHANG-RAE LEE

Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at t...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence...
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My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long a...
CHANG-RAE LEE

It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Ilia...
CHANG-RAE LEE

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
CHANG-RAE LEE

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
CHANG-RAE LEE

We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pant...
CHANG-RAE LEE

We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but t...
CHANG-RAE LEE

But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent s...
CHANG-RAE LEE

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'...
CHANG-RAE LEE

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, real...
CHANG-RAE LEE

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is on...
CHANG-RAE LEE

...whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, mo...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of q...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head...
CHANG-RAE LEE

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother,...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't thin...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble ...
CHANG-RAE LEE

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of wr...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people d...
CHANG-RAE LEE

In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me ...
CHANG-RAE LEE

For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very...
CHANG-RAE LEE

A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A nove...
CHANG-RAE LEE

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

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading...
CHANG-RAE LEE

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it ne...
CHANG-RAE LEE

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and ...
CHANG-RAE LEE

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of th...
CHANG-RAE LEE

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
CHANG-RAE LEE

And also, to encompass the madness within, let us reach forth our minds.
RAE LA RAE

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most ...
IRIS CHANG

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class d...
IRIS CHANG

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
IRIS CHANG

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
IRIS CHANG

Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
IRIS CHANG

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else...
IRIS CHANG

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments o...
IRIS CHANG

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an eco...
IRIS CHANG

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out...
IRIS CHANG

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's...
IRIS CHANG

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerou...
IRIS CHANG

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also t...
IRIS CHANG

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ...
IRIS CHANG

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau...
IRIS CHANG

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more a...
IRIS CHANG

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. ...
IRIS CHANG

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in ...
IRIS CHANG

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
IRIS CHANG

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself,...
IRIS CHANG

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engag...
IRIS CHANG

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
IRIS CHANG

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
IRIS CHANG

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an...
IRIS CHANG

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
IRIS CHANG

I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. I...
DAVID CHANG

Life's too short to just breeze on by.
DAVID CHANG

I see tendencies, I see body language.
MICHAEL CHANG

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
CHAO CHANG

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation a...
KENNETH CHANG

At the heart of the debate over intelligent design is this question: Can a scientific explanation of...
KENNETH CHANG

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.
DAVID CHANG

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
DAVID CHANG

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
MICHAEL CHANG

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.
DAVID CHANG

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all...
JUNG CHANG

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything th...
JUNG CHANG

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off chil...
IRIS CHANG

There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you...
DAVID CHANG

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China b...
JUNG CHANG

I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged he...
DAVID CHANG

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what...
MICHAEL CHANG

There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people star...
IRIS CHANG

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
IRIS CHANG

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
MICHAEL CHANG

New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and th...
DAVID CHANG

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.
DAVID CHANG

To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You ...
DAVID CHANG

If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there'...
DAVID CHANG

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, ...
DAVID CHANG

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
CHANG CH'AO

Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.
CH'AO CHANG

I love to eat sushi, and, you know, those flavors and wasabi and really eating spoonfuls of it... I ...
DAVID CHANG

I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets - whatever....
DAVID CHANG

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events ...
MICHAEL CHANG

I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game tha...
MICHAEL CHANG

Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. Y...
DAVID CHANG

The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th...
IRIS CHANG

I'm still flirting with No. 1. It just so happens that I have a two behind the one.
MICHAEL CHANG

God bless each and every one of you, especially China.
MICHAEL CHANG

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.
MICHAEL CHANG

I accepted the Ministry of Finance's offer to take up the long-vacant post on Wednesday.
MICHAEL CHANG

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...
EILEEN CHANG

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have qu...
DAVID CHANG

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
MICHAEL CHANG

My biggest opponent has been the injuries. It's a little bit new for me. Maybe it has to do with El ...
MICHAEL CHANG

He is quite incredible - it made me think a bit about me winning the French Open at 17 and how profe...
MICHAEL CHANG

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm...
MICHAEL CHANG

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.
MICHAEL CHANG

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
MICHAEL CHANG

While we like Malaysia, there's reason to like overseas more.
DANNY CHANG

In the 1980s and 1990s, no one wanted to touch a narrow-focused antibiotic, something that treated o...
MICHAEL CHANG

Cadence Encounter Conformal Custom provides a quicker turnaround as the result of its exhaustive ver...
MICHAEL CHANG

[Chang is looking forward to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He served as a Goodwill Ambassador for Ch...
MICHAEL CHANG

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but dur...
JUNG CHANG

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind...
JUNG CHANG

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he ...
JUNG CHANG

We are always happy to launch a site directed by Jewel. Her sites are awesome, and our members love ...
ARTHUR CHANG

Our collaboration with Francesca resulted in our first DP site. We are working hard to diversify our...
ARTHUR CHANG

I thought Gingrich was quite impressive. He seems to have a good idea about how to solve a serious p...
BENNY CHANG

We invest very heavily in improving the code quality so we reduce the number of bugs the verificatio...
BENNY CHANG

We realize that we can't be perfect. The chips today are large and complex and have a lot of complex...
BENNY CHANG

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.
EILEEN CHANG

We not only reiterated strict management rules to participants, but gave each member a local mobile ...
CHANG QINGLIANG

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears...
JUNG CHANG

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myse...
JUNG CHANG

I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.
MICHAEL CHANG

There are many things to admire about Japan but this is the one thing I love the most and probably t...
DAVID CHANG

A Brighter Summer Day.
CHANG CHEN

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I rea...
MICHAEL CHANG

But the Bush administration is treating him with respect and goodwill. We consider this to be an imp...
PARRIS CHANG

Sex scenes are the easiest to film. Everyone is an animal. Everyone is the same when they're making ...
CHANG CHEN

I think that I would rather grow racquet-wise than grow taller. I think I would be a lot slower if I...
MICHAEL CHANG

[Asked about a scene with Gong Li in] Eros, ... I don't think that was explicit. Do you think that w...
CHANG CHEN

Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated...
JUNG CHANG

But there are new faces all the time.
SHARON CHANG

I love (F. Scott) Fitzgerald, (Ernest) Hemingway, I love Bill Bryson. At the same time, I love the C...
SHARON CHANG

Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicin...
IRIS CHANG

Shin Kong Life's offer surprised the market.
VICTOR CHANG

The chartered flights to Mecca have increased from 15 to 20 this year due to the sharp expansion of ...
CHANG QINGLIANG

We rented another four buildings for pilgrims, which could accommodate thousands of people for lodgi...
CHANG QINGLIANG

These episodes of racism occur in cycles.
IRIS CHANG

Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minu...
IRIS CHANG

I feel like a dork, because it feels a bit obsessive. I am never going to be selling this (certifica...
LILY CHANG

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
IRIS CHANG

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an...
IRIS CHANG

The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s...
IRIS CHANG

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time...
MICHAEL CHANG

...go in the direction your head is pointed in.
JUNG CHANG

Come forth, Paladins!
Fulfill your destiny!
ANDRY CHANG

My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done...
DAVID CHANG

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think...
DAVID CHANG

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I...
MICHAEL CHANG

Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that ch...
DAVID CHANG

When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn't miss a beat.
DAVID CHANG

Now I enjoy acting,
CHANG CHEN

Nowhere is the erosion of American influence so visible as the place it counts most : emerging Asia.
GORDON CHANG

Pension business is a long-term strategy for us, and also the highlight of our work in 2006. We will...
ERIC CHANG

The capital boosting has the go-ahead from the board. It will be a considerable number, and each par...
ERIC CHANG

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been ...
JUNG CHANG

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep s...
DAVID CHANG

Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the ...
DAVID CHANG

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG

The market is quite stable. Competition will be as stiff as before.
HARVEY CHANG

Technology shares have risen significantly recently. But some investors are wondering whether electr...
HARVEY CHANG

Global equity markets have been mostly strong lately and it appears many local technology companies ...
HARVEY CHANG

It is not as if all these problems can be solved with money. It's not that China isn't making progre...
GORDON CHANG

This is beginning to look like a contest that could last for decades. China and Japan are essentiall...
GORDON CHANG

No one thinks to make the goddess a cup of tea; they just ply her with useless perfumed oils and imp...
JADE CHANG

Fighting Eel has quite a following from Hawaii and abroad, because of its appeal for being youthful,...
JASON CHANG

99 Boarding Co. is the original Oakley store of the Pacific, offering the widest selection of Oakley...
JASON CHANG

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.
DAVID CHANG

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
DAVID CHANG

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they'r...
DAVID CHANG

I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home c...
DAVID CHANG

People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.
DAVID CHANG

I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the h...
DAVID CHANG

I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the...
DAVID CHANG

I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're tw...
DAVID CHANG

Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is importa...
DAVID CHANG

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast foo...
DAVID CHANG

It's been going very, very well. We have been able to do things that we haven't done in years.
LESTER CHANG

It gets to a much larger truth. To appreciate it, you don't have to have a vagina with an Arctic tun...
LISA CHANG

The people at Section Eight helped a lot.
LISA CHANG

It's probably the No. 1-used park.
LES CHANG

We're taking back our parks for our families, children and all park users. All of the public should ...
LES CHANG

After the court's ruling (in favor of those affected by the defoliant), it asked us to share our exp...
KANG CHANG

At the International Criminal Court, we will call for the drug companies to compensate us.
KANG CHANG

In a landslide the crush of mud and boulders would have pushed the building away. Rescuers have gone...
JOSEPH CHANG

Local rescue teams have managed to pinpoint where the school once stood but they may be focusing on ...
JOSEPH CHANG

They have discovered a trace of the school building.
JOSEPH CHANG

The effect of the handover has been largely debated and talked about for a long period of time.
JOYCE CHANG

Even as a moderate slowing in US growth looms, growth prospects have improved for other engines of t...
JOYCE CHANG

Investors used to look at ratings for a barometer as to whether to sell or buy bonds.
JOYCE CHANG

The basic economic trends in India remain pretty compelling. Growth should still be in the 6 to 6.5 ...
JOYCE CHANG

We know that the PC sector won't be good in the first quarter but consumer products are playing a mo...
JEFF CHANG

I entered at an interesting time, after the L.A. riots, when the field was in crisis. A lot of the m...
JEFF CHANG

I remember cutting out any article I could find about the guy. At the party, he gave me a piece of s...
JEFF CHANG

It was just one of those nights. It was an out-of-body experience.
JEFF CHANG

At that point I had a real 30-year narrative to sink my teeth into.
JEFF CHANG

There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from...
JEFF CHANG

I remember when (graffiti film) 'Wild Style' came to the (Honolulu) Academy of Arts. We loaded up th...
JEFF CHANG

It's interesting to me that the questions assume that because I'm Asian-American and Pacific islande...
JEFF CHANG

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.

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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.

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