Behind Quote by Andrea Hirata

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels…

— Christopher Koch

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Every writer needs new material now and then, whether it's traveling to Japan, volunteering at a food bank, learning a new language, or trying…

— Celeste Ng

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

— Robert E. Howard

Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.

— Celeste Ng

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo.…

— Haruki Murakami

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most…

— Paul Theroux

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock…

— F. Sionil Jose

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing…

— Celeste Ng