Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Amy Tanis an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 25 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 February 1952
CityOakland, CA
CountryUnited States of America
luxury able way
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.
hard-times people forgiving
I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.
mother kids eight
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 fought almost every day.
expectations parent kindergarten
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
responsibility culture burden
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
kids stories fairy-tale
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.
moving thinking knowing
I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
art writing stories
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.
thinking people mind
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 don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)
strong eye heart
Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.
struggle men ifs
Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
stupid warning heed
Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
teenager soul sometimes
Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
success brother father
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.