Amy Tan Quotes

5 quotes from 5 authors

If you’ve ever felt the pull of a story that bridges generations, Amy Tan’s voice is a familiar guide. Her novels weave Chinese heritage with American life, offering humor, grief, and quiet strength. Though the list is brief, it captures the emotional honesty fans love. For family dynamics or immigrant narratives

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Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as…

Otto Penzler

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I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know…

Amy Tan

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If someone were to call me 'the next Amy Tan,' it would not be because - or not primarily because - we…

Celeste Ng

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“Eric Ripert’s 32 Yolks, Joanne Harris’s Chocolat, Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Richard Morais’s The Hundred-Foot…

Ellery Adams

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“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas…

Beth Revis

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