Frank Chin (born February 25, 1940) is an American author and playwright.

Quotes

• My main concern was to write a novel that uses all of this stuff that is accessible, to write a novel that deals with white racism and Chinese American history and the real Chinese fairy tales and the heroic tradition, and to demonstrate that a Chinese American could do all of this without sending whites up the wall or alienating anybody…
  • On his novel Donald Duk (as quoted in ““FRANK CHIN: HIS OWN VOICE” in the Bloombury Review; September 1991)

• The first thing that begins to happen when you begin taking yourself seriously as a writer is this imaginary writer’s block that people talk about, but I never really suffered from. But there’s this barrier between the spoken word and the written word, once you set something down in writing it’s supposed to be set in stone or you take on this funny attitude that writing is unnatural…
  • On the writing process in ““FRANK CHIN: HIS OWN VOICE” in the Bloombury Review (September 1991)

• That this play is the first play by an Asian American at our existence, is proof of the great success white racism has had with us. America might love us. But America’s love is not good. It’s racist love. I don’t want it.
  • On his play The Chickencoop Chinaman (as quoted in the book Notable Asian Americans)

• I am out of theatre. I will not work with any theatre, producer, writer, director, or actor who plays and lives the stereotype. So I write fiction, essays, and articles.
  • On his leaving the theater world (as quoted in the book Notable Asian Americans)

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