People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.
Roman PayneTag: writing inspiration creativity travel ideas paris france expatriate expats asia writer-s-block burma opium expatriot opiate saffron poppies opiates parisians
Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that reached all the way up to their elbows, to keep the tropical sun off their skins. They looked briefly at Maier, with the curiosity usually reserved for a passing dog. It was too early for professional enthusiasm.
Tom VaterTag: quote novel crime-fiction asia tom-vater asian-noir cambodian crime-wave-press the-cambodian-book-of-the-dead
A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau
Karl PilkingtonNever get involved in a land war in Asia. Never fight a battle of wits when iocane powder is involved. And never, never, never, never, never, never, never let the New Republic's editors choose the headline for your article.
Brad De LongTag: war asia the-new-republic iocaine-powder peter-r-orszag
Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.
Larry HerzbergWhen given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.
Larry HerzbergI had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.
Abigail FriedmanWe'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing. All other colours - even purple and black - were shades of green. Light and shade were degrees of green. Greenness, here, was less a colour than a colonising impulse. Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so. Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green.
Geoff DyerTag: travel asia landscapes green travel-writing verdant jungle southeast-asia globetrotting
Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.
Peter TieryasTag: water china asia chinese-literature
Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven.
Irl M. DavisTag: china business trade training asia global china-culture business-culture
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