Best Amy Tan Sayings
- 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 story to someone. Extreme
- Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. Arise
- I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. Choice
- God, life changes faster than you think. Changes
- I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. Everything Worse
- Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation… All
- 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… Ability
- In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. America
- It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. All
- The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. Catcher
- I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and… All
- I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese. Argument
- It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. Attack
- No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think… Anybody
- I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. Expected
- I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them. Clear
- I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. Enabled
- I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba. Cuba
- 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. Any
- I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. Inspirational
- I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your… Called
- 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,… Able
- I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me. Betrayed
- 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… Age
- My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. Expectations
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