"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
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Imagination
― Amy Tan
More From Amy Tan
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Imagination
- "All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science."― Leslie Fiedler
- "Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."― Janet Frame
- "What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula."― Doris Lessing