Arthur Golden Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.”

“I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.”

“It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”