Celeste Ng famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
-- Celeste Ng

#Make You Happy #Force #Feels
They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.
-- Celeste Ng

#Life #Promise #Able
The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finishedâ€”and meaning is madeâ€”not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.
-- Celeste Ng

#Jobs #Space #Giving
What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.
-- Celeste Ng

#Losing #Made #Findings
After a while, the fear became a habit, too.
-- Celeste Ng

#Habit
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.
-- Celeste Ng

#Writing #Trying #Pages
I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.
-- Celeste Ng

#Son #Race #Perception
I am very active on Twitter and one thing that keeps popping up is "How do I balance having a kid and writing?" And I know it should not be as aggravating, but I know no one ever asks a male writer that. Or, any male that.
-- Celeste Ng

#Writing #Kids #Balance
Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.
-- Celeste Ng

#Feels
If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.
-- Celeste Ng

#Moving #Ohio #People
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.
-- Celeste Ng

#Growing Up #Fire #Catching On
There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.
-- Celeste Ng

#Quality #Underdog #Midwest
The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.
-- Celeste Ng

#Differences #People #Saws
I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.
-- Celeste Ng

#Thinking #Self #Cheerful
If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.
-- Celeste Ng

#Struggle #Thinking #People

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