Lisa See

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

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

— Lisa See

#far #go #i #i love #love

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

#angeles #anything #bumped #business #even

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

— Lisa See

#american family #angeles #chinese #come #eighth

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

#because #books #certain #footnotes #i

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

— Lisa See

#age #bound #feet #interesting #interesting things

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 #because #bound #contest #feet

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 form #book #completely #different #film

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

#did #doing #done #family #finding

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

— Lisa See

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