Literary Birthday – 28 January – Susan Choi
Happy Birthday, Susan Choi, born 28 January 1969.
Susan Choi Quotes
- 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.
- I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I’m lucky, things start to happen.
- Thoughts are often false. A feeling’s always real. Not true, just real.
- At the moment, I think we each genuinely believed ourselves to be the protagonist, and the other a naïve and pardonable walk-on whose role might even have a tragic end.
- We are ghosts of ourselves, and of others, and all of these ghosts appear perfectly real.
Susan Choi is an American novelist. She is the author of The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, My Education, and Trust Exercise, which was the winner of The National Book Award for fiction. Her first book for children was Camp Tiger. She was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, for her most recent novel Flashlight. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. She is also the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Choi teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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