Susan Choi

Quotes

• “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…”
• “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.”
• “I think the “disfigurement” that Japan inflicted was less the idea of disfigurement, and more the idea of mystery. I’ve managed to finish all that I’ve written because there’s always a mystery at the heart of it which keeps me interested. I think that’s why Japan was interesting, and it seems to me, still, like a strange mystery.”

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Key dates

Born

28 January 1969

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Susan

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Indiana

Occupation

university teacher

Educated at

High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

Languages spoken

English language

Official website

www.susanchoi.com

Image

Susan Choi at National Book Festival 2025.jpg

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