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" I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends. "

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" No matter our background, we all have crazy families. "

" Growing up in Singapore, I wasn't allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding. "

" All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side. "

" I have a photographic memory. "

" Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large. "

" I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet. "

" Hollywood is a whole other level of crazy. I've never met so many assistants who have assistants. It's a stratified society on its own. "

" It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane. "

" I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing. "

" I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock. "

" At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore. "

" I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person. "

" 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. "

" My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege. "

" They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. "

" I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it. "

" I have pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s and '30s in avant-garde dresses that looked like they could have come from the House of Worth or Lucien Lelong. She would never say if they were couture, but I do recall her telling me, 'All my clothes and shoes came from Paris.' "

" Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies. "

" There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals. "

" In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. "

" I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others. "

" When my first novel, 'Crazy Rich Asians,' was published in 2013, many readers were astonished to learn that in Asia, there were women who dressed in couture from morning till night. "

" I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant. "

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" To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations. "

" My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living. "

" The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture. "

" I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese. "

" It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever. "