Quotes about Amy Tan

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

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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case,...

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

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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time...

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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the...

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

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

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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

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

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

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

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

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