Gene Luen Yang Quotes

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

What is China but a people and their stories?

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

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.

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

[S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity