Lisa See Quotes


In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in mens writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain the second means love. That is a mothers love. Lisa See Motherhood 81
I write a thousand words a day. Lisa See Write 71
My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics. Lisa See Books 70
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 59
And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age. Lisa See Age 59
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 Adult 55
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 Done 54
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that wed be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs my eyes my heart. Lisa See Lust 51
People write to me all the time, and I write back. Lisa See Write 43
Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river. Lisa See Storytelling 42
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. Lisa See Regret 39
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 Friend 38
He was in my hair my eyes my fingers my heart. I daydreamed about what he was doing thinking seeing smelling feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him. Lisa See Longing 35
You make choices that are good and sound but the gods have other plans for you. Lisa See Free will 34
You may be desperate but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. Lisa See Culture 31
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 Beauty 29
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles. Lisa See American 28
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 Beauty 24

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