The second disciple
Say joined another young apprentice named Tokida at Noro Shinpei's studio. Both young men were immensely talented and driven to learn from the master.
Memory and imagination
Say believes that memory is the most important asset an artist has. He describes imagination as "rearranging your memory."
Drawing and karate
Better to have passion for something than to simply be a brilliant technician. Say learned that from his friend Orito, who became the pioneer of American karate.
Say reads an excerpt from Drawing from Memory
"The great cartoonist wasn't an old man. I recognized Tokida from the newspaper article. He didn't look very friendly. 'Come in and tell us who you are,' said the master."
Learning from the master
In Tokyo, Say sought out Noro Shinpei, the most famous post-war Japanese cartoonist, with the hope that he could become Shinpei's apprentice.
A professional daydreamer
Laurence Yep loves his work and is grateful for his longevity as an author.
Writing for pennies
Laurence Yep collected many rejection letters before selling his first story to a science fiction magazine— for a penny a word.
A special way of living
You don't have to go to Paris, or even be in a shipwreck, to write good stories. Laurence Yep suggests simply looking at the things around you.
Cultural outsider
Laurence Yep describes what it was like to grow up as an outsider.
Writers are writers
Aside from his 60 published books, Yep has file cabinets filled with unpublished stories.