Another Quote by Oscar Hijuelos

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

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

— Mitali Perkins

Good travel books are novels at heart.

— Jonathan Raban

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

— Leila Slimani

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly…

— Sasa Stanisic

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

— Andrew Lam

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are…

— James Gray

All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of Paradise Lost,"…

— Andrew Lam

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent…

— Janet Frame

“The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.

— Celeste Ng

I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a…

— Junot Diaz