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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
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I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
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Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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I've always been a magnet for guilt.
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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
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Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.
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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.
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