Amy Tan

(12 votes)   I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

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(3 votes)   I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

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

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(67 votes)   If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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1952-, Chinese American Author, ''The Joy Luck Club''

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(15 votes)   Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(10 votes)   I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

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(10 votes)   My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

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(10 votes)   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.

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(10 votes)   That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

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(9 votes)   God, life changes faster than you think.

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(9 votes)   I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

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(9 votes)   I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

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(8 votes)   Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

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(7 votes)   I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

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