Lisa See quotes - page 2

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined. (Lisa See)

all girls have dreams, even if our destinies are set.

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

I write a thousand words a day.

Lisa See

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

Lisa See

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

Lisa See

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

Lisa See

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

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

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

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic. (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

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

Previous
1
2 (Current)
Next

Lisa See

Lisa See - Image

Photo: Asís G. Ayerbe, CC BY-SA 3.0

Occupation: American Writer
Born: February 18, 1955
Quotes count: 38

Related authors

Carolyn See 1

American Author

Amy Tan 171

American Novelist

Anchee Min 21

Chinese Athlete

Jamie Ford 12

Author

Li Bingbing 5

Chinese Actress

Sue Monk Kidd 108

American Writer

Khaled Hosseini 265

Afghani Novelist

Gail Tsukiyama 10

American Novelist

Lisa Scottoline 31

American Author

Pearl S. Buck 124

American Novelist