” But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can’t see that. “
” But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that’s when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. “
” A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one. “
” I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives. “
” People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. “
” I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you’re able to then create many words out of one character. “
” One of the things that’s pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It’s almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again. “
” It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have – I guess you’d call them beauty contests – where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. “
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