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The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Complexity
Overwhelming
World
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The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Gestures
Habitual
Shocking
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Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Graduate School
School
Support
Supportive
Way
Graduate
Vanished
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All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Expensive
Withering
Communities
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Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Culture
Flip
Sides
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Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Charming
Flip
Innocence
Theatrical
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It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Historical Fiction
Term
Funny Myself Me
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I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Conventional
Flawless
Good Job
Grades
Scholarship
Graduate Degree
Immigrant
Stepping
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I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Fiction
Packages
Tidy
Trying
Writing
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Ive at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, I would give anything for this not to be happening. And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, Im kind of glad that happened to me.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Past
People
Thinking
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I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'
Susan Choi / Novelist
Glad
Time Passes
Unhappy
Time Me Past
Passes
People Say
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I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Awakening
Neighbor
Avoid
Always Know Looking
Chopin
Re-Read
Reliable
Section
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I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even opened it, treat it with a 'been there, done that' attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see how much I'd missed.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Attitude
Great American
Novel
Eyes
How Much
Missed
Opened
Status
Took
Treat
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If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Grad
Grad School
Heat
Next Generation
Remove
Reruns
Spending
Dead
Star
Generation
Go Away
Star Trek
Tons
Trek
Web
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I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Discovering
Inevitable
Plot
Predetermined
Retrospect
Starting
Subjects
Theme
Developments
Dreamed
Outline
Surprised
Themes
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It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.
Susan Choi / Novelist
Impression
Lasting
Pathetic
Time Age Great
Assigned
Great Gatsby
Reaction
Time Reading
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