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
thinking world geisha
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
kindness world should
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
thanking-him world found
I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.
world records memoir
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
ocean struggle our-world
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
dream adversity world
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
thinking world needs
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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.