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Amy Tan
 
Date of birth: 19 February 1952
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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Novelist

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" And so she was very proud, because she measured success in terms of money, which is what I started to do as well. My goal then, became to increase the amount of money that I made each month. "

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" And we have a Constitution, a tradition, a culture that supports that. I hope it continues to support that. I hope it especially continues to support the arts in that direction. "

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" At the time I was doing business writing, I also had a friend who introduced me to a fiction writer. My friend said that I could meet this woman and tell her how to make some real money. "

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" Certainly all of us have gone through fights with partners in our life, but that's not drawn from my relationships per se. But I know that I'm going to be subject to that assumption. "

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" For myself, it's very personal. So I have a hard time accepting what is said about my work when it's taken apart. "

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" Getting this story out, I realized, was a gift that she was giving me. And there was a gift I could give back to her, and it didn't matter what happened to that book afterwards. "

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" God, life changes faster than you think. "

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" I also grew up, thankfully, with a love of language. That may have happened because I was bilingual at an early age. I stopped speaking Chinese when I was five, but I loved words. "

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" 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. "

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" I could already see how people were treating me differently. That's the scary thing. "

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" I did see all of those things, and even more. I discovered how American I was. I also discovered how Chinese I was by the kind of family habits and routines that were so familiar. "

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" I did some writing in class when I was young just as everybody did. I had to write little essays and things like that. "

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" I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. "

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" I didn't want to become a suspicious person. Those were the things that helped me decide what I was going to write. "

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" I discovered a sense of finally belonging to a period of history which I never felt with American history. "

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