Amy Tan quotes - page 2

Amy Tan is an American writer best known for her novels exploring themes of family, identity, and Chinese-American heritage. Her debut novel, "The Joy Luck Club," achieved international success and has been widely acclaimed. She continues to influence contemporary literature with her insightful storytelling and cultural perspective. Here are 171 of her quotes:

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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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

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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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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

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

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

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

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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

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If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.

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

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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei.

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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

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But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei.

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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

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What is the past but what we choose to remember?

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