“My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the ...” — Chang-Rae Lee Quote

“My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the mornings when the kids are out of the house. And I don't work at night any more. I like to see my family.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.”

“The real trendsetters are the ones who rebel. Those are the ones who everyone in fashion eventually follows.”

“Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'”