Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Libraries are the pride of the city.
Amy Tan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Libraries
Library
Pride
City
Cities
More quotes by Amy Tan
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
Amy Tan
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.
Amy Tan
Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
Amy Tan
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
Amy Tan
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
Amy Tan
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
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.
Amy Tan
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Amy Tan
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
Amy Tan
Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
Amy Tan
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
Amy Tan
Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
Amy Tan
I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
Amy Tan
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
Amy Tan
To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
Amy Tan
I've always been a magnet for guilt.
Amy Tan
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
Amy Tan
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
Amy Tan
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
Amy Tan
I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.
Amy Tan