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Thanhha Lai Quotes

born 1965 United States

Thanhha Lai (born 1965) is a Vietnam-born American children’s author and former journalist.

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Vietnamese is so lyrical, and 80% percent of it is derived from Chinese, which is a language built from pictures not words. So this format and voice came out of that desire.

Journalism is just very structured…One day I turned in a story and [an editor] said to me, ‘You can’t compare inanimate objects with animate objects,’ and I realized I had to leave.

They're told to gather the stories of their parents and grandparents and to honor their cultural history. And yet, as they're born in the United States, they don't identify with Vietnam and feel strongly that these are not their roots, so how can they lose them?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thanhha Lai (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.