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
luck firsts steps
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
loses
To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
country lying giving
They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
wind rivers color
What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.
girl mother running
A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.
forever choices trying
If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
skills people survivor
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
wall home house
When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
expectations parent kindergarten
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
clever writing voice
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.
luxury able way
I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
dust gold vagabonds
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
penance leisure chaos
Chaos is the penance for leisure.
hard-times people forgiving
I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.