I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. Read more at” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the… — Amy Tan Copy Share
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of… — Amy Tan Copy Share
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And… — Amy Tan Copy Share
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. — Amy Tan Copy Share
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your… — Amy Tan Copy Share
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in… — Amy Tan Copy Share
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still… — Amy Tan Copy Share
“I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she… — Amy Tan Copy Share
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