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" I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write. "
Kevin Kwan
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" Old money in Southeast Asia is much more discrete and low key. It's about not wearing brand names. It's about being invisible, almost. The billionaire can be taking the bus with you. "
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Bus
" 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. "
Kevin Kwan
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House
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" There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it. "
Kevin Kwan
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Never
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" Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it. "
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" Every family is a crazy family. "
Kevin Kwan
Family
Crazy
Every
" I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers. "
Kevin Kwan
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" It used to be, on TV, you'd see only two types of Asians. You'd see the science geek who's using his mobile phone or something like that, or you'd see a very token Asian family - yuppie mother and father and two little Asian kids. It's the last barrier for Hollywood. "
Kevin Kwan
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" Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash. "
Kevin Kwan
Always
Never
Say
" Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies. "
Kevin Kwan
Great
Movies
Amazing
" If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers. "
Kevin Kwan
Water
China
King
" In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them. "
Kevin Kwan
You
Them
Singapore
" People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets. "
Kevin Kwan
Me
Know
Because
" I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience. "
Kevin Kwan
Asia
Introduce
American
" I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge. "
Kevin Kwan
Walk
Business
Drive
" My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips. "
Kevin Kwan
Child
Life
Mother
" 'Crazy Rich Asians' may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I've had an unparalleled view into the very real world it depicts. "
Kevin Kwan
Crazy
World
View
" I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well. "
Kevin Kwan
Writer
Think
Face
" I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese. "
Kevin Kwan
Call
Chinese
Colonial
" My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living. "
Kevin Kwan
Father
Children
Old
" Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks. "
Kevin Kwan
Children
You
Living
" They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. "
Kevin Kwan
Writing
Truth Is
Than
" I have a photographic memory. "
Kevin Kwan
Photographic
Memory
" Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large. "
Kevin Kwan
Culture
Reflection
People
" I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling. "
Kevin Kwan
Ceiling
Go
Leather
" 'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world. "
Kevin Kwan
Rich
China
World
" 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. "
Kevin Kwan
Special
Think
World
" It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever. "
Kevin Kwan
You
Human Nature
Human
" I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant. "
Kevin Kwan
Creative
School
New York
" 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. "
Kevin Kwan
Laugh
Beautiful
Water
" I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia. "
Kevin Kwan
People
Secret
Hidden