David Henry Hwang Professions : Playwright Born : August 11, 1957 Browse All Authors Top 46 quotes by David Henry Hwang We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience. David Henry Hwang you failure experience long My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers. David Henry Hwang new will language white As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America. David Henry Hwang joke father children america There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness. David Henry Hwang pursuit-of-happiness unique happiness I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet. David Henry Hwang famous i-am because china My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself. David Henry Hwang you father past thinking Similar Authors Alan Ayckbourn playwright Bonnie Greer playwright Annie Baker playwright August Wilson playwright August Strindberg playwright Athol Fugard playwright All Authors