Quotes by : Maxine Hong Kingston

This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit....

I regret always writing, writing. I gave my kid the whole plastic bag of marshmallows,so i could have....

A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again.....

In a time of destruction, create something.

Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count....

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.....

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which....

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips,....

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants....

You're too young to decide to live forever.