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."
- "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."
More In Success
- "The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn’t make it easy."― Enya
- "Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they’re in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I’m certainly that and I’ve made a lot of mistakes."― Jeffrey Archer
- "We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."― Arthur Schopenhauer