Amy Tan Quotes

God, life changes faster than you think.

~ Amy Tan

Changes Faster God Life Life Changes Than Think You

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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 things that were completely alien to my life.

~ Amy Tan

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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 stone are worn down by water.

~ Amy Tan

Away Carving Did Down Face Lose Myself Once Out Over Pain Same Stone Washing Water Way Worn Years

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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

~ Amy Tan

Expected Failure Fear

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I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

~ Amy Tan

Actually Everything Makes Maybe Memory Than Which Worse Writer

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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

~ Amy Tan

Forgive Learned Me Mother Myself Person

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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 Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

~ Amy Tan

Because Better Bible Fairy Fairy Tales Gothic Kid Liked Loved Me Respect Stories Tales Very Were

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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.

~ Amy Tan

Any Book Books Day Did Family House Kid Literary Read

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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 then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

~ Amy Tan

Comfortable Different Displaced Eyes Fresh Get Light Mother Need New New Eyes Routine Saw See Then Things You

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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

~ Amy Tan

Away Had Novel Second Seven Started Them Throw Times

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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

~ Amy Tan

Afraid Always Been Brother Deaths Failure Father Hope I Think More Prepared Rejection Since Somebody Success Than Think Who

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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 own voice.

~ Amy Tan

Clever Enough Originality Own People Realize Something Thought Voice Well Write Your

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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

~ Amy Tan

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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 art of something. And writing was very private.

~ Amy Tan

About Aesthetic Art Become Craft First Good Just Myself Private Purely Something Stories Thing Very Wanted Write Writing

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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

~ Amy Tan

Choice Enough Expression Freedom Freedom Of Expression Had Intelligent Make Make Up Mind My Own Only Own Up

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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

~ Amy Tan

Call Came Find Grateful Ideas Imagination Laughing Myself Suppose Where Wherever Wondering Would You

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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.

~ Amy Tan

Able Draw Hours Hours And Hours Just Like Luxury Sit Still Way Would Writer

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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

~ Amy Tan

America Circumstances Else Gives Keep Nobody Says Somebody You

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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

~ Amy Tan

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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

~ Amy Tan

Attack Both Conformity Rebellion Success You

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