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About Amy Tan
American author
Amy Tan is an American author best known for her 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. The book was later adapted into a film in 1993. Her work brought her wide recognition as a novelist. The available facts point chiefly to The Joy Luck Club and its screen adaptation, which made her name familiar to many readers and viewers.
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- “That's part of the character of Shanghainese people. They're good negotiators, they're very persistent, and y…”Amy Tan
- “I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.”Amy Tan
Teaching: more sayings
- “All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.”William Jennings Bryan
- “If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a to…”R. Buckminster Fuller
- “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to t…”Hermann Hesse
Explore Fear
- “I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.”Rainbow Rowell
- “Number 23 had plenty of redeeming qualities that made falling for him a justifiable accident. But our connect…”Maggie Georgiana Young
- “Growing up as a gay boy during the holidays, there's the things you want to ask for, and then the things you…”Jinkx Monsoon
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Books by Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife
1996
The Joy Luck Club
2003
The Bonesetter's Daughter
2002
The Hundred Secret Senses
1995
The valley of amazement
2013