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
long feelings feeling-sad
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.
grief sadness grieving
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
sadness cutting apples
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
sadness heavy-things heavy
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
sad trying misery
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
absolutely book finally japan written
Well, I'm working on something that has absolutely nothing to do with Japan. I finally got the book written on Japan that I wanted to write.
mean memories-of-a-geisha knows
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
life-is-like sometimes odd
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it
entirely recognize
This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
again decided details found historical people third throw time written
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
american-writer
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
entertain happened hire japanese men sit stay women
When men go out, the women stay at home. And historically what has always happened is the Japanese men hire women to sit and kind of entertain them.