Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep
Laurence Michael Yepis a prolific Chinese-American writer, best known for children's books. In 2005, he received the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his career contribution to American children's literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth14 June 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.
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As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.
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I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.
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Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.
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For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice to young writers is this: Read a lot. Read to find out what past writers have done. Then write about what you know. Write about your school, your class, about your teachers, your family. That's what I did. Each writer must find his or her own kind of voice. Finally, you have to keep on writing.
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Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.
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Kindness comes with no price.
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You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.