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
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.
lying passion men
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
pain flesh joy-luck-club
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
writing fiction lessons
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
sorrow tears too-much
too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.