Binary Quote by Junot Diaz

American literature has always been immigrant.

— Salman Rushdie

Immigrant characters now are getting much more well-rounded, and they have personalities, which is important because we do need to portray immigrants in a…

— Jimmy O. Yang

In my essay for 'The Good Immigrant,' I write about how concerns about race and immigration crept up on me a bit because of…

— Himesh Patel

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.

— Jimmy O. Yang

“After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote about the…

— Marina Gorbis

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

— Andrew Lam

The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant…

— Sasa Stanisic

I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being…

— Mylene Dinh-Robic

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

Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up…

— Micah Perks

I think it's not an accident that you don't have that many Asian American women writers who are breaking out. I don't think it's…

— Min Jin Lee

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn