Choices Quote by Jenny Zhang

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 think that a lot of actors of color have said that it's a wonderful thing to play a role that doesn't have a…

— Hong Chau

I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.

— Jessica Henwick

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

In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I've been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Japanese and…

— Dante Basco

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our…

— Adrian Tomine

As an Asian guy, I would love to see a big blockbuster with Asian lead characters.

— Hiro Murai

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

I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, but they've never taken center stage, they've never been…

— Tess Gerritsen

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

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

— Constance Wu

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