More From Amy Tan
- "It’s both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."
- "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 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 Family
- "It’s not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn’t have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn’t have much to do with reality."― Elizabeth Gilbert
- "Something else has happened with computers."― Seth Lloyd
- "People always think that because of ‘Dr. Quinn’ that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that ‘East of Eden’ was a very successful thing for me in the past. I’ve played a lot of very evil people in my time."― Jane Seymour