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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
#Food
#Laugh
#Want
#Water
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
#Hill
#House
#Men
#Metal
#Nothing
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every day, and my grandfather, who attended university in Scotland, would smoke his pipe after dinner.
- Kevin Kwan
#Day
#Dinner
#Home
#Manners
#Smoke
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
#Business
#Drive
#Society
#Sun
#Walk
I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.
- Kevin Kwan
#Age
#Height
#King
#Me
#Time
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.
- Kevin Kwan
#Crazy
#Never
#Own
#Society
#Who
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.
- Kevin Kwan
#Family
#Looking
#Nobody
#Perspective
'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
#Crazy
#History
#New
#Rich
#World
I love romantic comedies more than anything.
- Kevin Kwan
#Anything
#I Love
#Love
#More
#Romantic
#Than
In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.
- Kevin Kwan
#Know
#Look
#May
#Singapore
#Them
I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.
- Kevin Kwan
#Just
#Keep
#Organize
#Outline
#Way
I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.
- Kevin Kwan
#Art
#Creative
#Design
#New
#School
People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
- Kevin Kwan
#Always
#Been
#People
#Privileged
I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.
- Kevin Kwan
#Born
#Fortunate
#I Was Born
#Singapore
I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.
- Kevin Kwan
#Asia
#Deep
#Hidden
#People
#Secret
Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
- Kevin Kwan
#Club
#Fashion
#Precious
#Women
#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
#Feel
#Find
#Rich
#Will
#World
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.
- Kevin Kwan
#Children
#Joy
#Luck
#People
#World
At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.
- Kevin Kwan
#Food
#Least
#Singapore
#Snobbery
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
- Kevin Kwan
#Culture
#Literature
#People
#Reflection
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
- Kevin Kwan
#Family
#Hospital
#Medical
#School
#Work
One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
- Kevin Kwan
#Dreams
#More
#Time
#Wish List
#Wish
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