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Top 50+ Amy Tan Quotes (2025 Update)
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Amy Tan Quote: “I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity.”
Amy Tan Quote: “No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn’t have encouragement, but I didn’t have discouragement, because I don’t think anybody knew what that meant.”
Amy Tan Quote: “It isn’t that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also add thrills to a life that otherwise would be as regular as the tide, as routine as day passing into night.”
Amy Tan Quote: “And in my family, there were two pillars of beliefs: Christian faith on my father’s side, Chinese fate on my mother’s. Picture these two ideologies as you might the goalposts of a soccer field, faith at one end, fate at the other, and me running between them trying to duck whatever dangerous missile had been launched in the air.”
Amy Tan Quote: “The farther you move from the core of the problem, the faster the situation spins out of control.”
Amy Tan Quote: “But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I don’t steer clear of genres. I simply haven’t steered myself toward some of them.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most painful ones. It is extraordinarily faithful in recording the most hideous details, and it will recall them for you in the future with moments that are even only vaguely similar.”
Amy Tan Quote: “While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Isn’t that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That’s not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.”
Amy Tan Quote: “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 Quote: “Suffer more now, suffer less later.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Our meeting each other could not possibly be as random as two leaves from two trees being blown together.”
Amy Tan Quote: “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 Quote: “The life we receive is not always what we choose.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I once thought love was supposed to be nothing but bliss. I now know it is also worry and grief, hope and trust.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.”
Amy Tan Quote: “The Doppler Effect of Communication”: There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean. “The.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I was appalled at the idea. Evaporate? Would that happen to me? I wanted to expand, to fill the void, to reclaim all that I had wasted. I wanted to fill the silence with all the words I had not yet spoken.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I’ve always been a magnet for guilt.”
Amy Tan Quote: “It was not the only disappointment my mother felt in me. In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. I didn’t get straight As. I didn’t become class president. I didn’t get into Stanford. I dropped out of college. For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I asked myself, what is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?”
Amy Tan Quote: “I think about our marriage. The weft of our seventeen years together was so easily torn apart. Our love was as ordinary as the identical welcome mats found in the suburbs we grew up in. The fact that our bodies, our thoughts, our hearts had once moved in rhythm with each other had only fooled us into thinking we were special.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author’s sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left...”
Amy Tan Quote: “Hardships can harden even the best person.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Over time, passion wanes, differences don’t.”
Amy Tan Quote: “My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.”
Amy Tan Quote: “If you want to take pictures of Chinese food, you have to taste real Chinese food. The flavors soak into your tongue, go into your stomach. The stomach is where your true feelings are. And if you take photos, these true feelings from your stomach can come out, so that everyone can taste the food just by looking at your pictures.”
Amy Tan Quote: “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.”
Amy Tan Quote: “And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds “joy luck” is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I felt as if I were running in a labyrinth, chasing after something I could not see yet knew was important. I sensed it was just ahead, and then it would go around a corner, and I would be lost. I would have to decide what to do next, where to go, and what I needed to get out of that confusing place. If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would be nowhere else to go.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic’s rationale of relying on proof through fact.”
Amy Tan Quote: “When you touch a man’s nostalgia, he is yours.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I’m not consciously hiding anything.′ After Ruth said that she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything – the irritation, the fears? How tiresome that would be.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of their own devising.”
Amy Tan Quote: “But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong.”
Amy Tan Quote: “But he was so attuned to my every movement I was sure he was reading my mind. HE had no inhibitions, and whatever ones he discovered I had he’d pry away from me like little treasures.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that’s what I do as a writer.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I often reread passages of “Lolita” for its exquisite language. To me, “Lolita” has no message, no purpose, other than to exist as a marvel of literary creation. It has wit, intelligence and style. It pointedly makes no attempt to serve a higher moral purpose, and previous attempts by critics to find one have proven ludicrous. The annotated edition is accompanied by a brilliant afterword by Nabokov that is a lucid reminder of the pure joy of writing, its interplay with life.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I ask myself, How can I relax? How can I let go of everything that’s happened? You need complete trust to do that.”
Amy Tan Quote: “Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That’s like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.”
Amy Tan Quote: “I realized then that we miss so much of life while we are part of it. We fail to see ninety percent of the glories of nature, for to do so would require vision that is simultaneously telescopic and microscopic.”
Amy Tan Quote: “How can I argue with someone who makes no sense?”
Amy Tan Quote: “Was it a craving for salt, or for pain?”
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