Asian Quote by Celeste Ng

I always feel like people misunderstand the difference between an Asian story and an Asian-American story. That's completely different, too. I have friends who…

— Arden Cho

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

I wish reporters were more in tune to the difference between the Asian experience and the Asian-American experience. I think often they lump the…

— Constance Wu

Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe in it…

— Hanya Yanagihara

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

— Celeste Ng

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

— Gore Vidal

We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the…

— Letitia Wright

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

We promote Asian storytelling - not just Asian stories but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience. When you…

— Ronny Chieng

As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the storyteller.

— Lulu Wang

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo