I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well. — Kevin Kwan Being Copy Share Image
Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies. — Kevin Kwan Amazing Copy Share Image
“A fishing boat! All these rich kids who grew up with everything just want to live like they are poor. How is… — Kevin Kwan Money Copy Share Image
“People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to.” — Kevin Kwan Life Copy Share Image
To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia. — Kevin Kwan Asia Copy Share Image
I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby… — Kevin Kwan Fish Copy Share Image
'Crazy Rich Asians' may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I've had an unparalleled view into the very… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“St. Germain elderflower liqueur, gin, and white Lillet mixed with grapefruit juice create this classic effervescent aperitif. Chin-chin!” — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody… — Kevin Kwan China Copy Share Image
“thirty-seven feet, almost filling the floor space of two workrooms. At last, the senior specialist could confirm that this was undoubtedly the… — Kevin Kwan Writer Copy Share Image
In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. — Kevin Kwan Asia Copy Share Image
I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“You have two hours to get everyone to Hong Kong airport or I’m leaving without you! My special friend is doing us… — Kevin Kwan Bad service Copy Share Image
“Peel away the veneer of wealth and sophistication and you’ll find extremely provincial, narrow-minded people. The problem is that they all have… — Kevin Kwan Geniuses Copy Share Image
Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough… — Kevin Kwan Couture Copy Share Image
“My parents have always been racist and elitist to the extreme, like so many in their crowd. Peel away the veneer of… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household where there were really, really strong matriarchal characters. I think that's true of many Asian households.… — Kevin Kwan Experience Copy Share Image
“Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of… — Kevin Kwan Fear Copy Share Image
I have pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s and '30s in avant-garde dresses that looked like they could have come from… — Kevin Kwan Clothes Copy Share Image
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school… — Kevin Kwan Family Copy Share Image
“You see, my father believed he had a gift. He felt that he was able to ascertain a person's entire future based… — Kevin Kwan Father Copy Share Image
My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. —MALCOLM FORBES” — Kevin Kwan Money Copy Share Image
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“Tourists should have to take a style exam before being allowed to set foot on the island!” — Kevin Kwan Tourists Copy Share Image
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living. — Kevin Kwan Children Copy Share Image
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. — Kevin Kwan Believability Copy Share Image
