Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep
Laurence Michael Yepis a prolific Chinese-American writer, best known for children's books. In 2005, he received the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his career contribution to American children's literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth14 June 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.
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For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice to young writers is this: Read a lot. Read to find out what past writers have done. Then write about what you know. Write about your school, your class, about your teachers, your family. That's what I did. Each writer must find his or her own kind of voice. Finally, you have to keep on writing.
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Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.
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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.
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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.
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I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.