Culture Quote by Donna George Storey

“As much as I'd wanted to stay in Japan to be with him, the real reason was that I wanted control of my life.…

— Amanda Sun

“That night I took a long, wandering walk through Tokyo. I was restless and felt the need to move, to let the city’s currents…

— Barry Eisler

“Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.”

— Melina Marchetta

“The colonel nodded. "Our childhood seems so far away now. All this" - he gestured out of the vehicle - "so much suffering. One…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by…

— Olivia Sudjic

“One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.”

— Andrew Horvat

“I had a dream about you last night. In this dream we were walking down the beautiful Japanese streets of Florida. Fukuoka is nice…

— Rodney Jenkins

“In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation.”

— Thomas C. Foster

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

“I could soon see outlines of people in the water in the distance, all of them covered in oil. I had no way to…

— Alistair Urquhart

“I exist in a twenty-mile radius, but through him, I know all lands, principalities and kingdoms, peoples and customs. I need never be ashamed…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“I wanted him to be a poet. I wanted him to adventure out into the world and learn its ways, not losing himself in…

— Josephine Humphreys