Books Quote by Constance Wu

“When I met white kids' parents, they always asked me bullshit questions about race, where our family was "from," and used words like Oriental.…

— Eddie Huang

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

— Tao Lin

Something I love about 'Teen Wolf' is that my character is written in as just a normal girl. She could have been any ethnicity;…

— Arden Cho

That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to her character…

— Ming-Na Wen

I came from a council estate in the '80s which was predominantly black, white or Indian. Being Chinese mixed race we instantly stuck out.

— Gok Wan

“Porridge is our soup, our grits, our sustenance, so it's pretty much the go-to for breakfast. For the first time, I ate with a…

— Eddie Huang

The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and…

— Jenny Han

I grew up with the White half of my family.

— Jaz Sinclair

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'm wondering whether I can explain," said Lee. "Where there is no likeness of experience it's very difficult. I understand you were not born…

— John Steinbeck

I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a…

— Ken Liu

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