My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day. Amy Tan Read Quote
I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs. Amy Tan Read Quote
My mother always thought if her mother hadn’t left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened. Amy Tan Read Quote
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite. Amy Tan Read Quote
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. Amy Tan Read Quote
My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like ‘365 Stories’ out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems – like a wheel coming off their bicycle. Amy Tan Read Quote
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you’ve just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. Amy Tan Read Quote
My breakfast is usually a wholegrain cereal or porridge, with walnuts sprinkled in it, berries, a tablespoon of honey, and chia seeds. I have coffee and a little cherry juice with seltzer. I have a seat by the window, and I look out at the view. Amy Tan Read Quote
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn’t know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba. Amy Tan Read Quote
