Quotes by Amy Tan

Memory feeds imagination.

#Memories

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from...

#Inspirational

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I...

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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a...

#Amy Tan

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

#Amy Tan

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the...

#Amy Tan

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while....

#Amy Tan

God, life changes faster than you think.

#Amy Tan

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

#Amy Tan

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is...

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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading...

#Amy Tan