I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
More Quotes from Amy Tan:
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.Amy Tan
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Amy Tan
God, life changes faster than you think.
Amy Tan
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
Amy Tan
Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
Amy Tan
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
Amy Tan
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.
Maximilian Schell
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
Charles Sturt