When my first novel, ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ was published in 2013, many readers were astonished to learn that in Asia, there were women who dressed in couture from morning till night. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media… I didn’t see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that’s just beyond anything we’ve ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
I’m not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ they might not have been looked upon so kindly. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
I would not call my family ‘traditional Chinese.’ We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
A lot of the people who live the lives of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ don’t see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I’m from that part of the world, I’m no longer part of that world. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
