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.
From Chang-Rae Lee
I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.
In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.
I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
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