Susan Choi Quotes

Novelist

Susan Choi is an American novelist known for her distinctive narrative style and profound insights into social issues. Her works often explore themes of race, class, and identity, earning her praise from readers and critics alike.

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Famous Susan Choi Quotes

“Heartbreak doesn't flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum.”

Heartbreak

Book:Trust Exercise

Source: Trust Exercise

“[..] said Sarah's broken and cynical mother, who for all her superior experience of life knew nothing about how to live.”

Living Life Experience Mothers And Daughters Teenagers And Parents

Book:Trust Exercise

Source: Trust Exercise

“She was afraid to want things for herself. She didn’t think she deserved them.”

Self Deserve

Author:Susan Choi

“She would do anything to obtain her own car. She would prostitute herself or rob or kill if it meant she could have her own car.”

Car Independence

Book:Trust Exercise

Source: Trust Exercise

“I never imagined you'd live there. I'd sooner imagine I'd live there, and I never imagined I'd live there. How is it?" "It's great. It's not the same place we lived when we were kids. I mean, that place is still there, but I don't spend much time there." "I hated living there so much. I always felt so powerless." "We were kids. We weren't supposed to have power." "You had power. You had that car.”

Power Hometown Cars

Book:Trust Exercise

Source: Trust Exercise

“perhaps meaning to pretend to have misheard, as people sometimes do to buy time, when they think that what matters is how they respond, and not the thing that has been said”

Communication Disclosure

Book:Trust Exercise

Source: Trust Exercise

“Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.”

Way School Support Environment Graduates Supportive Graduate School

Author:Susan Choi

“The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.”

World Complexity Overwhelming

Author:Susan Choi

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Kind Past Happened Happenings Glad Unhappy My Past Time Passes

Author:Susan Choi

“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.”

Ifs Enough Culture Sides Innocence Get Away Charming Flip Theatrical

Author:Susan Choi

“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.”

Writing Trying Littles Results Fiction Materials Fit Packages Tidy Writing Short

Author:Susan Choi

“The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.”

Versions Gestures Shocking Habitual

Book:American Woman: A Novel

Source: American Woman: A Novel

About the Author

Born: January 28, 1969
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 12

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