Lisa See Quotes

United States, Writer
February 18, 1955

Lisa See is an American writer and novelist. 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 (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to the 2010 New York Times bestseller list. Both Shanghai Girls and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan received honorable mentions from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.

Also known as Novelist

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Lisa See
- Times
- Seeing
- Hearing
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
- Country
- Love
- Mother

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
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
- Women
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
- People
- Picture