When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact. Celeste Ng Read Quote
It’s so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them. Celeste Ng Read Quote
Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there’s only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading. Celeste Ng Read Quote
A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act – and why. Celeste Ng Read Quote
Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn’t spent most of her life in China, she’d have every right to write about it. Celeste Ng Read Quote
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for Dummies. Celeste Ng Read Quote
