Quotes about Amy Tan

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

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I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing...

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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't...

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

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

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

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

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

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You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for...

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You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should...

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

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

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