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Quotes By author - Starting with A - Amy Tan
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There are 95 quotes for the author Amy Tan
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They were daughters, also wanting their mother's approval, and didn't understand why their mother was so critical.
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I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections.
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It's not simply material ones or environmental ones. I worry about ethical ones, moral ones, the kinds of compromises that are constantly being made for pragmatic reasons.
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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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My books and my stories are about families, so why wouldn't I tell them the things that I thought were important to our family, that are in my books?
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It didn't matter to my mother that I was writing fiction, because I still had the job. I made it a goal however, to cut back and work only 50 billable hours a week.
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That's what I think life is like, too. I have the luxury to do exactly what it is we all need time to do, and that is just think about the mystery of life.
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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.
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I didn't want to become a suspicious person. Those were the things that helped me decide what I was going to write.
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