“My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: thi...” — Ken Liu Quote

“My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.”

“Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.”

“There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.”

“It's kind of cool to see the different aspects of American culture on different college communities.”

“New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought.”

“American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.”