Dreams Quote by Tania James

“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience…

— Ryū Murakami

“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise is a…

— Merlin Franco

“This is the inevitable disadvantage of studying Asian philosophy by the purely literary methods of Western scholarship, for words can be communicative only between…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“I can hear people in American society saying, "Oh, you just like that subservient kind of woman in Asia who waits on her man…

— Richard Terrill

“I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There's a misconception that I can't relate to the quote-unquote 'Asian-American experience' because I didn't grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And…

— Lana Condor

“Asian men could be socially inept and incompetent and ridiculous, like a Long Duk Dong, or at best unthreatening and slightly buffoonish, like a…

— Celeste Ng

“In Japan, even when you're alone, you're never really that lonely. But the loneliness you feel living among people with differently coloured skin and…

— Ryū Murakami

“And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen again, not…

— John Steinbeck

“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

It's very difficult to be asking other people for opportunities. It is much more empowering to be creating opportunities, to be the one who…

— Daniel Dae Kim

“A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.”

— Lynda Cheldelin Fell