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Singaporean
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Novelist
One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
Kevin Kwan
Dreams
,
Time
,
Wish
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Thailand
,
More
,
List
No matter our background, we all have crazy families.
Kevin Kwan
Crazy
,
Matter
,
Background
,
Our
,
Families
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
Kevin Kwan
English
,
Up
,
Out
,
Posh
,
Merchant
,
Accent
Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies.
Kevin Kwan
Great
,
Amazing
,
Movies
,
Just
,
Studio
In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.
Kevin Kwan
Family
,
Politics
,
Together
,
Get Together
The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.
Kevin Kwan
Art
,
Flying
,
Rich
,
World
,
Building
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
,
Literature
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
Kevin Kwan
Bike
,
Men
,
Child
,
Hill
,
Down
,
House
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
,
People
,
You
,
Meet
,
Know
,
Wear
My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.
Kevin Kwan
Live
,
Cool
,
Village
,
New York
,
New
,
Move
To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.
Kevin Kwan
Me
,
Comedy
,
Choose
,
Explore
,
Through
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.
Kevin Kwan
Live
,
Together
,
Country
,
Place
,
Speed
I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.
Kevin Kwan
Born
,
Singapore
,
I Was Born
,
Lived
,
Very
I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.
Kevin Kwan
People
,
Deep
,
Hidden
,
Secret
,
Asia
,
Any
My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.
Kevin Kwan
Shoes
,
Paris
,
Grandmother
,
Singapore
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
Money
,
World
,
Side
,
Different
,
Reveal
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.
Kevin Kwan
Live
,
Believe
,
World
,
Want
,
Part
,
Modern
I've recently rediscovered Anthony Trollope. I used to read him back in college, and a friend turned me on to a whole new series of his work, 'The Palliser Series.' It's a series of seven or eight books.
Kevin Kwan
Work
,
Friend
,
Me
,
College
,
Back
,
New
There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.
Kevin Kwan
Tradition
,
People
,
Rich
,
Always
,
Been
'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
History
,
Crazy
,
Rich
,
World
,
New
,
China
If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.
Kevin Kwan
Water
,
King
,
You
,
China
,
Selling
Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.
Kevin Kwan
People
,
World
,
Understand
,
Want
,
Economy
The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
Kevin Kwan
World
,
New
,
Own
,
Places
,
Right
,
Books
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
Beautiful
,
Water
,
Food
,
Laugh
,
Want
If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.
Kevin Kwan
Live
,
Rich
,
Say
,
Europe
,
Far
,
Asia
I've lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I'd love to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else on the planet.
Kevin Kwan
Love
,
Day
,
City
,
Adventure
,
New York
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