Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: August 9, 1973

Topics

AmericanDoingBornChapterOkay

When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.

Joe Henderson

TimeMomentVictoryYouSettlePace

The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

WhySignsMissWarningEconomic

The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.

Amity Shlaes

EffortPerformanceBetterPartyOld

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

Steve Israel

PeopleImpactYouSecurityWill

In Washington, if someone disagrees with you, the problem must be your heart - you must be evil.

Steve Southerland

HeartEvilSomeoneProblemYouMust

I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.

Steve Zahn

LovePeopleMeYouMoreAnything

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Roger Kahn

SportsFootballCollegeWeatherCold

If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.

Luke Davies

PoetrySurviveWantPosterityThing

I always feel like I'm so busy.

Janina Gavankar

BusyFeelAlwaysLike

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

Dionne Warwick

MeRestFriendsDirtyTellAsking

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Clive Barker

BraveBetterPlanYouTryBe Brave

If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.

Brad Paisley

SuccessMusicMeSingingDoingYou

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