377 Quotes by Celeste Ng

I play music on my phone to fall asleep when I'm on the road and as an alarm clock to wake me up, so I need it nearby - but there are never outlets by the bed in hotels!

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

I lose pens a lot, so I don't use fancy ones.

Whenever I travel, I seem to get sick - it's probably inevitable when you're on a plane every single day.

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.

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.

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.

In 2011, I didn't read a single book.

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