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
clever writing voice
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.
writing seven novel
I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
writing thinking form
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
hands magic fiction
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 but not in the left...
luck firsts steps
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
america giving joy-luck-club
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
heart remember-you remembers-you
You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
pain stupid men
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 to marry the wrong man.
strength mother art
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."
betrayal lying secret
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
memories missing together
That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
memories imagination
Memory feeds imagination.
feelings magic kind
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
memories
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.