Celeste Ng Quotes

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.