Lisa See Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

  Lisa See

  Book, Reading, Writing

• In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

  Lisa See

  Mother, Country, Pain

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.2, A&C Black

• Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

  Lisa See

  Writing, Ungrateful, Feelings

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.197, A&C Black

• I write a thousand words a day.

  Lisa See

  Writing, Thousand

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

  Lisa See

  Writing, People

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