8 Quotes & Sayings By David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His plays include M. Butterfly, Golden Child, Fanny and Alexander, and Yellow Face. He is best known for Fanny and Alexander, a play based on his experience growing up as the adopted son of Korean immigrants in San Francisco Read more

The play garnered him two Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Original Score. Hwang won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film the Joy Luck Club. He has also written several books of short stories, including Fanny Chan Is Getting Married—And Other Stories, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.
1
I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy. David Henry Hwang
2
Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point. Song: One, because when he finally met his fantasy woman, he wanted more than anything to believe that she was, in fact, a woman. And second, I am an Oriental. And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man. David Henry Hwang
3
Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act David Henry Hwang
4
Time flies when you’re being stupid. David Henry Hwang
5
I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that. David Henry Hwang
6
My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out. David Henry Hwang
7
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness. David Henry Hwang