Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.Amy Tan
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
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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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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.
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How can you say luck and chance are the same thing Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterwards.
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