"I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese."

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Source : "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

Gene Luen Yang

#Emotional Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.”
“If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.”
“People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.”
“Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.”
“Ron Thompson, he's my main man!”
“This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.”
“No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.”

Source : Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.579, Princeton University Press
“I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.”

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