David Henry Hwang

I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was…

— David Henry Hwang

I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish…

— David Henry Hwang

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me.…

— David Henry Hwang

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I…

— David Henry Hwang

“And you wonder, what's wrong with me? Will anyone beautiful want me?”

— David Henry Hwang

As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual…

— David Henry Hwang

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

— David Henry Hwang

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is…

— David Henry Hwang

My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in…

— David Henry Hwang

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre,…

— David Henry Hwang

Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For…

— David Henry Hwang

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

— David Henry Hwang

If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do…

— David Henry Hwang

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

— David Henry Hwang

There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America…

— David Henry Hwang

“It just hangs there. This little... flap of flesh. And there's so much fuss that we make about it. I think the…

— David Henry Hwang

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

— David Henry Hwang

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

— David Henry Hwang

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

— David Henry Hwang

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

— David Henry Hwang

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

— David Henry Hwang

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until…

— David Henry Hwang

With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have…

— David Henry Hwang

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or…

— David Henry Hwang

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother,…

— David Henry Hwang