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Amy Tan Quotes
God, life changes faster than you think. - Amy Tan Quotes
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. - Amy Tan Quotes
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. - Amy Tan Quotes
I didnt fear failure. I expected failure. - Amy Tan Quotes
I have a writers memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. - Amy Tan Quotes
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. - Amy Tan Quotes
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. - Amy Tan Quotes
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. - Amy Tan Quotes
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from whats comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. - Amy Tan Quotes
I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. - Amy Tan Quotes
I think Ive 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. - Amy Tan Quotes
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didnt realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. - Amy Tan Quotes
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didnt understand her English, because she was Chinese. - Amy Tan Quotes
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. - Amy Tan Quotes
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. - Amy Tan Quotes
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. - Amy Tan Quotes
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, thats what I do as a writer. - Amy Tan Quotes
If you cant change your fate, change your attitude. - Amy Tan Quotes
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. - Amy Tan Quotes
Its a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. - Amy Tan Quotes
Its both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. - Amy Tan Quotes
Memory feeds imagination. - Amy Tan Quotes
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. - Amy Tan Quotes
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. - Amy Tan Quotes
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight As from the time I was in kindergarten. - Amy Tan Quotes
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. - Amy Tan Quotes
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didnt have encouragement, but I didnt have discouragement, because I dont think anybody knew what that meant. - Amy Tan Quotes
People think its a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimers. But in my mothers case, its different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, shes happy. - Amy Tan Quotes
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. - Amy Tan Quotes
She said Im by commission. You dont 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. - Amy Tan Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Alien Away Changes Down Face Faster Fiction
First Jazz Lessons Life Lose Making Myself
Once Over Pain Playing Same Stone Take
Than That Things Think Thought Tried Washing
Water Were While Worn Write Years
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