Best quotes by Celeste Ng on Time

Checkout quotes by Celeste Ng on Time

• ‟ Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.

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• ‟ My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This was completely unnecessary, as I always got A's, and they bought me books all the time anyway, and we all knew it.

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• ‟ I don't think I know a single person who's a minority who hasn't experienced some form of discrimination at one time or another.

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• ‟ Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.

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• ‟ I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current - and I'm a terrible swimmer.

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• ‟ Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.

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• ‟ As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

  - Celeste Ng