Quote

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

Lisa See

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Paris
France
Fanatic
Fanatics
Research
Love

More quotes by Lisa See

Image
I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
Lisa See
Image
I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.
Lisa See
Image
The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
Lisa See
Image
I write a thousand words a day.
Lisa See
Image
My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
Lisa See
Image
My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
Lisa See
Image
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
Image
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Lisa See
Image
Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
Lisa See
Image
I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
Lisa See
Image
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
Lisa See
Image
i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
Lisa See
Image
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
Lisa See
Image
When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
Lisa See
Image
For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
Lisa See
Image
All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.
Lisa See
Image
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
Image
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
Lisa See
Image
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Lisa See
Image
Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
Lisa See