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Write Quotes by Amy Tan
- 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 also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up…
- You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and…
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- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood