I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.” — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“Class, I'd like us all to give a warm Mayflower elementary welcome to your new friend and classmate Jing Jang!" "Jin Wang." "Jin Wang!" "He and his family recently moved to our neighborhood all the way from China!" "San Francisco." "San Francisco!" "Yes, Timmy." "My momma says Chinese people eat dogs." "Now be nice, Timmy!" -I’m sure Jin doesn't do… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share
My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
Zombies aren't about zombies. It's not about the dead bodies. I think it's a very hopeful subgenre. It says that regardless of what happens,… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“Tell me, Little Bao, have you ever gotten close to woman?' 'Well. . . ' 'Close enough to smell her?' 'No.' 'Ah! Even when… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share
