“I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.” — 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!"… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
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… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
