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Amy Tan Quotes & Sayings
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41 entries tagged including 12 subtopics.
Last updated Apr 2024
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
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I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
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God, life changes faster than you think.
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Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
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