I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Quote by Amy Tan

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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I...

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I...

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call...

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call...

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom...

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom...

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and...

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and...

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself...

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself...

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who...

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who...

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another...

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another...

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also...

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also...

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up...

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up...

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You...

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You...

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist,...

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist,...

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only...

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only...

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So...

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So...

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have...

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have...

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not...

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not...