Susan Choi quotes

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone. (Susan Choi)

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

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.

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.

Susan Choi

The voice tends to come first and then everything else follows. It's never worked for me to think, here's a character and they should have this kind of voice, let me try to force that. If I can't tap into a character's voice, I can't really write the character...

Susan Choi

I was also interested in what it's like to experience in a really vivid and authentic-seeming way agency and choice in a circumstance that you might later in your life view completely differently, because as much as you were experiencing agency and choice, you were actually in a radically disempowered situation you weren't even experienced enough to recognize. That's why I think consent is such a complicated issue.

Susan Choi

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

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