"I would still like to have that luxury,……" — Amy Tan
"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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202 Quotes by Amy Tan
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Memory feeds imagination.
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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T…
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a…
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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over,…
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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex…
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Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus.…
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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how…
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to…
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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