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Amy Tan Quotes & Sayings

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41 entries tagged including 12 subtopics.
Last updated Dec 2023

Amy Tan Topics

Memories
Inspirational
Rebellion
Success
Forbidden Fruit
Language
Life
Optimistic
Heaven
Immortality
Love

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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

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Immortality quotes

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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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Optimistic quotes

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

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Language quotes

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

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You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

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We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

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Forbidden Fruit quotes

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That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

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She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'

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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

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Rebellion quotes

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