I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early ’80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
I’ve lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I’d love to visit, but I can’t imagine living anywhere else on the planet. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
Crazy Rich Asians’ may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I’ve had an unparalleled view into the very real world it depicts. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
I’m a writer. I’m naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don’t think I do it well. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
I grew up at a time in Singapore – the ’70s and ’80s – where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
If you’re the water boiler king of China, you’re selling a billion water boilers. Kevin Kwan Read Quote
