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Laurence Yep

American Writer

Born: Jun 14, 1948

School Science Strong Women Writing You

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.' Laurence Yep

Science Word Penny First Later Magazine Write Science Fiction Continue Years Five Short Fiction Short Story Story Paid Novel Published

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867. Laurence Yep

Family Son Mother Father Citizen Virginia Francisco Laundry Born Had He She Accent West West Virginia American Paternal American Citizen Ohio Where San San Francisco China Grandfather Her Actually Raised

The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Laurence Yep

Ancient Magic Buddhism Very Confucianism

I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school. Laurence Yep

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me. Laurence Yep

Teacher Me Age Writing School National Seventeen Later Bit High Threat Magazine High School Something Had Withdrew Bug Because Accepted Said Get Who Started

I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things. Laurence Yep

Good You Writing Sometimes Think Everything Out Write Good Writing Ideas Get Children Experiences Ordinary Ordinary Things Special Things Brings

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life. Laurence Yep

Life Anger Hate Sometimes My Life Met Francisco Neighborhood Threatened Could Outside Simply Knife Until Became Insults Got Isolated However Were Been Up Fester Child San San Francisco Chinatown Realized Incidents Even Growing Growing Up

Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all. Laurence Yep

History You Way Rush Adventure Like Most California Read Makes Sound Real Boyish However Gold Fiction Grand Realize

My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything. Laurence Yep

You Women Strong Mother Ran Everything Ancestry Though Would Husbands Head Said Were Aunts Friends Southern Families Chinese Them Asked Grandmother Who Figures

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back. Laurence Yep

You Natural Back Strike Horrible Something Done Impulse

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