All Amy Tan Quotes
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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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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She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
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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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I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
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