Amy Tan Quotes

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• Memory feeds imagination.
• A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
• Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
• I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED.…
• You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have…
• The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the…
• I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
• 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 natural accompaniment.
• 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…
• 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…
• Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
• For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
• My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being…
• I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
• And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel…
• I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
• And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
• I have always known a thing before it happens.
• It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
• I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

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