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Lisa See
American
Writer
Born:
Feb 18
,
1955
About
People
Think
Women
Write
You
Related authors:
Dale Carnegie
Denis Waitley
Dr. Seuss
H. L. Mencken
Napoleon Hill
Ray Bradbury
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Arthur Ward
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
Friendship
Time
You
People
Other
Back
Our
Back Up
Saw
Our Lives
Out
Pick
True
Come
Test
True Test
Off
Left
Up
Where
Whether
Each
Lives
Right
Last
Last Time
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
Music
Writing
Pure
Those
Tell
Tells
Visual
Tried
Purely
More
Both
Through
Emotion
Opera
Exhibition
Being
Stories
Story
Things
Incorporate
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
Life
Business
Though
Angeles
About
Somehow
Never
Know
Los
Los Angeles
Bumped
Movie
Anything
Movie Business
Really
Whole
Even
Lived
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
You
Books
Would
Kindle
Photos
See
Able
Never
Put
Look
Because
Want
Certain
Maps
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
Home
You
Book
First
Big
Spring
Back
Books
Kindle
Trip
Picked
Bought
Like
Know
Cambodia
Came
Up
Thailand
Did
Just
Little
Vietnam
Right
Right Back
Night
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
Art
You
Book
Think
Say
Kind
One Thing
Writer
Well
Art Form
Just
Different
Form
Film
Thing
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
You
People
Sometimes
Picture
Think
Take
Adult
Instead
Whole
Now
Lives
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
Time
Hurt
Women
Think
Way
All Women
Some
Betrayed
Point
Disappointed
Friend
Dumped
Friendships
Same
Same Time
Them
Who
Deeply
Universal
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
Lisa See
Family
Angeles
Come
Am
Los
Los Angeles
Eighth
Chinese
Large
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
Family
People
Looking
Those
Out
Finding
Seeing
Some
How
Am
Doing
Fit
Did
Done
Mean
Them
Researching
Why
Things
People write to me all the time, and I write back.
Lisa See
Time
Me
People
Back
Write
I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.
Lisa See
Character
You
Words
Think
Out
Characters
Able
About
Only
Because
Literate
Then
Create
Really
Many
Need
And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
Lisa See
Age
About
Never
Bound
Feet
Interesting
Interesting Things
Things
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