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
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
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
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.
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.
confused believe thinking
Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
lying thinking worry
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
thinking missing missing-something
Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
life thinking inspire
God, life changes faster than you think.
book writing thinking
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
mother thinking people
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
encouragement thinking fiction
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
successful thinking people
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
mother thinking alzheimers
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.