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
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
depression use mental-illness
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo
children character chinese
I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
hate joy joy-luck-club
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
joy-luck-club known happens
I have always known a thing before it happens.
running weed joy-luck-club
And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
children fighting saws
I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
vomiting remember wonder
And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
opportunity looks events
I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
mother fate thinking
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.