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
mushrooms two lovely
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...
men mood geisha
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
cat wish fool
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
wells memoir knows
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
beast dangerous wounded
A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.
pace pace-of-change convinced
of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.
eye thinking two
But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.
sight luck wish
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
mother reading writing
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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.