Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden
Arthur Goldenis an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
moving fighting time-management
Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.
morning nice men
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
wall men leaving
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
guts fishes corridors
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
writing past men
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
girl prettiest
The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.
sadness heavy-things heavy
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
saws excitement passing
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
feelings tears tables
My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
world records memoir
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
writing simple men
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
eye matter way
It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.
growing way remarkable
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.
simple life-is imagine
Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.