29 Quotes by Laurence Yep

Just think of it as a picnic with guns and monsters instead of mosquitoes and ants. Do we have fun or what?

They can have their little ceremony. We know the truth.

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.

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.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'