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

What is China but a people and their stories?

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

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

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.

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