If someone were to call me 'the next Amy Tan,' it would…

I am a first-generation Chinese-American; my husband is white. We have a little boy, so I think a lot about what it's like when…

— Celeste Ng

All of the Flying Lotus records are exploring similar themes: These questions in my mind about what's next and what's beyond.

— Flying Lotus

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We…

— Celeste Ng

There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless…

— Jon Stewart

Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan,…

— Otto Penzler

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that…

— Amy Tan

“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and…

— Beth Revis

“Eric Ripert’s 32 Yolks, Joanne Harris’s Chocolat, Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Richard Morais’s The Hundred-Foot Journey, Muriel…

— Ellery Adams

On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan.…

— Leroy Chiao

Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.

— Daniel Wu

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

— Anonymous

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United…

— Leroy Chiao

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my…

— Jenny Zhang