8 quotes by Amy Tan

“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”— Amy Tan

“I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.”— Amy Tan

“I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.”— Amy Tan

“I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.”— Amy Tan

“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

“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

“It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.”— Amy Tan

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”— Amy Tan

Source:The Bonesetter's Daughter