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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.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Artist Become Life Love Loved Luxury Me Mean My Life Period Somebody Something Wonderful You

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People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Around Bucket Conscious Country Feel Go List Me Much Need Observe People Talk Think Understand Whereas I Can

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When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Always Am Back Exist Fiction Go Having Journals Know Making May Mine Part Read Remember Sense Still Surprised Those Thoughts Who I Am I May Not

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Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like, and what we should look like.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Afraid Always Born Cautious Day Feel Huge Huge Influence Influence Like Look Mothers Should Teaching Us I Feel I Feel Like

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My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Bicycle Brother Coming Day Did Family Father Followed He Kids Like Loud Off Older Older Brother Only Out Page Problems Read Related Religion Set Simple Something Stories Things Time Us Were Wheel Year

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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

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Topics: Expected Failure Fear

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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Away Had Novel Second Seven Started Them Throw Times

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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.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Clever Enough Originality Own People Realize Something Thought Voice Well Write Your

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Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Art Artists As Far As Been Censorship Chinese Far Going Government Might Over Subversive Taking Think Thousands Thousands Of Years Years

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When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Always Any Book Club Complaining Friends Had Her How Joy Luck Me Mother Mothers Read She Tell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 19th, 1952

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