I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging.

Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic shifts, the border sometimes crosses you.

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.