Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.Amy Tan
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
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Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
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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.
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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