I have an interest in the outsider…In fiction you’re not often writing about the typical, you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour … another part comes from my personality: I’m an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I have an interest in the outsider…In fiction you’re not often writing about the typical, you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour … another part comes from my personality: I’m an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody." in the context of "On her writing interests in “Celeste Ng: ‘It’s a novel about race, and class and privilege’” in The Guardian (2017 Nov 4)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.