In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They don't do what you want them to do - they get into trouble, do drugs, fight over petty… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like a parrot and I got yelled at quite often. My older brother one night said, "You speak so much English when you're not supposed to, that's why your vocal chords shattered. Now you sound like a… — Andrew Lam Copy Share
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
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