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21 quotes by Lisa See

Lisa See is an American writer and novelist. Her Chinese-American family (See's paternal great-grandfather was Chinese American) has had a great impact on her life and work. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love...
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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... →

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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... →

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My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

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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... →

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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... →

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I write a thousand words a day.

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People write to me all the time, and I write back.

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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... →

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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... →

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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.

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And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

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I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

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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... →

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