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What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we’r...

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On Such a Full Sea

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physicia...

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Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying ...

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It’s perhaps more laudable to simply keep heading out into the world, than always tilting to leave o...

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It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-kn...

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The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

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Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

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Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

On Such a Full Sea

But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent sol...

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It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-kn...

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On Such a Full Sea

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular ...

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Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and de...

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For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most...

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On Such a Full Sea

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they re...

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Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

On Such a Full Sea

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identi...

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

On Such a Full Sea

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

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Chang-rae Lee

Novelist

Born: 1965-07-29

Died: N/A

Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University.More