American writer Quote by Celeste Ng

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

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want…

— Jenny Zhang

My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's called 'Crazy…

— Jimmy O. Yang

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience…

— Kiese Laymon

We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who…

— Karan Mahajan

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

— Leila Slimani

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

— Celeste Ng

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

— Ralph Ellison

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 sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

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

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