More From Amy Tan
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Freedom
- "Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be."― Shimon Peres
- "The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written."― Arlen Specter
- "Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That’s freedom."― Demi Moore