Rainbow Rowell Quotes

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

I love the Asian countries.

I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

India, Pakistan, China, Singapore and South Korea are heavily investing in nuclear arms. Since 21st century is the century of Asia, Asian countries should be the first ones to drop this arms race.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

The kingdom of Siam is heathen… the people are considered to be prudent folk .... The merchants know a great deal about merchandise … The kingdom is justly ruled. The King is always in residence in the city of Ayutthaya… he’s very ceremonious with strangers; he moves freely in easily with the natives. He has many wives—upwards of 500. On the death or decaying [of the king] it has as king a person of the royal blood … if he is suitable, and if he is not there are sometimes agreements and assemblies to decide who will be the best.

It is always upon the spirit that I lay stress. The world should know more about our spirit, for the world has tended to ignore Asiatic civilization. I am firmly convinced that the fundamentals of Asiatic civilization are just as good as the European

Asians love technology. They see it as the path to a good life. This is not so in Europe where there is much skepticism about technology—maybe because of Nazi Germany and its use of technology.

The dominant factor in the history of Russia's past is the influence of Asia. She crushed us, but she has also regenerated us.

The light of Asia

The Chinese are 3 percent of the population in Indonesia, a larger population in Malaysia; they're about 10 percent of the population in Thailand. But they are extremely economically dominant throughout Southeast Asia.

The Confucian culture really did contribute to the initial face of the industrialization of several Asian countries because it emphasized discipline and group behavior and so on, which was needed to initiate the industrialization process.

We have a culture where it’s OK to not know anything about mathematics whereas in Asia, they don’t

Quite a few people who are in the media and in control of the big money seem to want to see these Southeast Asian countries - and, in particular, Malaysia - stop trying to catch up with their superiors and to know their place.

You have to understand that Singapore is quite different from Mauritius.

I've always had fond feelings about Asia.

I'd love to go to Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

I go a lot to Korea and Japan.

I hope K-dramas can make inroads into more Asian countries.

Thailand was a revelation to me; the landscapes, the culture, the food and the people.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.