Best Amy Tan Quotations
- Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. Burden
- I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked… Better
- I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the… Aesthetic
- You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like… Brilliant Ideas
- I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability… Ability
- My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find… Always Relative
- My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day… Both
- I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the… Constellation
- Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what… All
- Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. Afterward
- Chaos is the penance for leisure. Chaos
- I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand… Appeared
- I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the… Disintegrated
- When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the… All
- Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. Dangerous
- No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct… Attached
- From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid… Anesthesia
- You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You… Beloved
- But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's… Anything Left
- You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not? Consequence
- Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. Daughter
- We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan All
- Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother,… Bones
- I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts… Beautiful
- But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo Funny
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