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
giving-up book dont-give-up
Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.
thinking self differences
You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.
thinking trying think-for-yourself
You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
education reading writing
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 to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.
fate thinking expectations
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
regret get-better way
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
forever choices trying
If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
life-is fronts
Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei
mom daughter mother
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
forever way mysterious
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
thinking unhappy matter
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
mind
With hope, a mind is always free.
running years shadow
All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying