“Fiction makes you aware of complications. I'm
interested in the times that things go wrong, but I'm also interested in trying
to make some kind of meaning from that. Fiction should show you more
dimensions. When you start to connect with other people, that's when that kind
of humility that allows you to have grace comes in. Grace is something that you
do after you've tripped: You're catching yourself and taking something that
could have been a negative or a wrongdoing or a shortcoming and moving past it.
Grace
is about how you handle things when you are wrong or when you have done wrong.
It's admitting that everyone, including you, is fallible.”—Author Celeste Ng
quoted in “Soapbox—The Columnists; WSJ Asks Six Luminaries to Weigh in on a
Single Topic; This Month: Grace,” WSJ. Magazine, December 2019/January
2020
The image accompanying this post, showing Celeste Ng
at the 2018 National Book Festival, was taken Sept. 1, 2018, by Avery Jensen.
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