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Lisa See Quotes

Lisa See quotes

American Writer February 18, 1955

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Lisa See quote: "I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic."
I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic. Lisa See
I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships. Lisa See
I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it. Lisa See
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. Lisa See
Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them. Lisa See
Lisa See quote: "I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large..."
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles. Lisa See
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. Lisa See
Lisa See quote: "And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who..."
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. Lisa See
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one. Lisa See
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. Lisa See
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing. Lisa See
Lisa See quote: "People write to me all the time, and I write back."
People write to me all the time, and I write back. Lisa See
Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. Lisa See
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives. Lisa See
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that. Lisa See

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