Home / Authors / Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden Quotes

Writer

Arthur Golden, born on December 6, 1956, is a renowned American writer known for his delicate emotional descriptions and profound cultural insights. His works, such as 'Snow Country Express', are celebrated for their intricate portrayal of Japanese culture and complex human nature.

Filter quotes by topic

All Geisha Memories Of A Geisha Ifs Men World Water Memoirs Of A Geisha Knows Moments Stones Thinking Courses Destiny Feels Mind Feelings Looks May Might Fighting

Famous Arthur Golden Quotes

“I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.”

Men School Young Mother Culture Father Language Secret College Mets Young Man Fascinated Graduates Businessman Tokyo Graduate School Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.”

Men Looks Feelings Behinds He Man Wall Stones Misery Raised Leaving Stone Walls

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.”

Men Writing Past Three Needed Crosses Divides 1930s

Author:Arthur Golden

“Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.”

Men Giving Writing Looks Different Simple Environment He Man Memoir Biographies Simple Things Get Ahead

Author:Arthur Golden

“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”

Ifs Men Giving Ends Would Be Realizing Childhood Danger Sorrow Understood Performances Dancer What If My Thoughts Unbearable Chairman Drifting Geisha Memories Of A Geisha Drifting Away

Author:Arthur Golden

“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”

Ifs Men Feels Long Beautiful Wonder Demon Privileged Blinded Memories Of A Geisha

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.”

Men Mind Two Fighting Courses Doubt Focus Confidence Victory Equal Defeat Geisha Memories Of A Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.”

Men Together Sound Sleep Pleasure Talking Wife Explaining Elderly Banquets Time Together Sound Sleep

Author:Arthur Golden

“Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?”

Ifs Men Needs Destiny Fortune Every Man Hungry Chef Fortune Teller

Author:Arthur Golden

“A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.”

Men Seasons Mood Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

People Men Feels Facts Left Known Gone Wife Died Gone Away

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“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.”

Knows Men Next House Morning Nice He Man Quiet Expectations Newspapers Evening Tea

Author:Arthur Golden

“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”

Men Turns Wife Divorce Mistress

Author:Arthur Golden

About the Author

Born: December 6, 1956
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 144

Related Topics

Geisha Memories Of A Geisha Ifs Men World Water Memoirs Of A Geisha Knows Moments Stones Thinking Courses Destiny Feels Mind Feelings Looks May Might Fighting

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Memoirs Of A GeishaRelated source material

Memorias de una geishaRelated source material

Mémoires d'un paresseuxRelated source material

Similar Authors

Zhang ZiyiBrowse related quotes
Michelle YeohBrowse related quotes
Mehmet Murat IldanBrowse related quotes
David LevithanBrowse related quotes
Colleen AtwoodBrowse related quotes
C. S. LewisBrowse related quotes
Leo TolstoyBrowse related quotes
George SaundersBrowse related quotes
Virginia WoolfBrowse related quotes
Gilbert K. ChestertonBrowse related quotes