More From Amy Tan
- "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."
- "I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."
- "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 Age
- "I don’t think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn’t sound like the kind of thing I’d do."― Tommy Lee Jones
- "I did find my direction at an early age."― Michelle Williams
- "I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn’t a matter of them missing me. I was missing them."― Jane Pauley