Min Jin Lee Quotes

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

My identity, I felt, was so distinct. I felt very much like an outsider. My family didn't have the same rituals that everyone else seemed to have.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

If I'm kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.

I just feel like no one is the same.

I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

It sounds lonely being Bob Dylan, because Bob Dylan likes being around other Bob Dylans, and there are not many other Bob Dylans around.

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

I just knew I was different from everyone else. I still feel like that today, sitting in rooms with people.

We all feel at some point of our lives that we're different, that we don't fit in.

When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.