Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Amy Tanis an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 25 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 February 1952
CityOakland, CA
CountryUnited States of America
betrayal lying secret
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
hope passing passings
With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
hands magic fiction
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left...
daughter laughing forever
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
daughter mother fear
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
kindness inspiration flukes
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
success conformity rebellion
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
done weakness blame
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
emotional thinking numbers
Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
heart remember-you remembers-you
You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
intelligent expression choices
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
dementia
Dementia was like a truth serum.
lonely loneliness writing
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
power hands
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.