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
daughter laughing forever
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
hate results wounded
Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
done weakness blame
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
girl daughter mother
I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.
power hands
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
mother teaching trying
Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.
lonely loneliness writing
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
intelligent expression choices
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
success conformity rebellion
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
love pain years
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.
writing thinking luxury
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
book kids house
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.
kindness inspiration flukes
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.
hope passing passings
With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.