Quotes By Amy Tan

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

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.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

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.