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
suits-you water waiting
Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]
fire water personality
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about -- the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of the box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire; it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water. And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?
water personality landscape
Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
eye artist deep-water
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
believe fighting water
It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!
fear water stones
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
mother water stones
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
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.