I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.Amy Tan
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
Amy Tan
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
Amy Tan
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.
Amy Tan
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.
Amy Tan
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
Amy Tan
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.
Amy Tan
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
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Aesthetic,
Art,
Become,
Craft,
First,
Good,
Just,
Myself,
Private,
Purely,
Something,
Stories,
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Thing,
Very,
Wanted,
Write,
Writing
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Aesthetic,
Art,
Become,
Craft,
First,
Good,
Just,
Myself,
Private,
Purely,
Something,
Stories,
Thing,
Very,
Wanted,
Write,
Writing
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