Frasi di Amy Tan

Amy Tan è una scrittrice statunitense di discendenza cinese.

I suoi lavori esplorano per lo più il rapporto tra madre e figlia, oltre che il mondo dei cinesi statunitensi. Nel 1993, il romanzo più popolare di Tan, Il circolo della fortuna e della felicità, fu riadattato in un film dallo stesso titolo.

Tan ha scritto diversi altri romanzi, tra i quali figurano La moglie del dio dei fuochi, I cento sensi segreti, La figlia dell'aggiustaossa e La valle delle meraviglie, oltre che diversi saggi non narrativi intitolati L'opposto del destino: un libro di riflessioni. Il suo romanzo più recente, Perché i pesci non affoghino, esplora le tribolazioni vissute da un gruppo di persone che spariscono nella giungla della Birmania durante una spedizione archeologica. Inoltre, Tan ha scritto due libri per bambini, The Moon Lady e Sagwa, il gatto siamese , quest'ultimo ha ispirato anche una serie animata della PBS trasmessa anche in Italia, Sagwa.

Tan si è laureata in letteratura inglese e linguistica alla San José State University, e successivamente si è impegnata in studi di dottorato linguistico alla UC Santa Cruz ed alla UC Berkeley.

Attualmente, Tan è editrice letteraria di West, la rivista della domenica del Los Angeles Times, ed ha effettuato un rimaneggiamento di The Replacement Killers sotto richiesta di Mira Sorvino. Risiede a Sausalito, California.

La scrittrice è membro della Rock Bottom Remainders, un gruppo rock composto di famosi scrittori, tra i quali Barbara Kingsolver, Matt Groening, Dave Barry e Stephen King. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Febbraio 1952   •   Altri nomi Amy Tanová
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Amy Tan: Frasi in inglese

“That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”

Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter

Origine: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.
-Lindo”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

American Acheivement interview (1996)
Origine: The Joy Luck Club
Contesto: Reading for me was a refuge. I could escape from everything that was miserable in my life and I could be anyone I wanted to be in a story, through a character. It was almost sinful how much I liked it. That's how I felt about it. If my parents knew how much I loved it, I thought they would take it away from me. I think I was also blessed with a very wild imagination because I can remember, when I was at an age before I could read, that I could imagine things that weren't real and whatever my imagination saw is what I actually saw. Some people would say that was psychosis but I prefer to say it was the beginning of a writer's imagination. If I believed that insects had eyes and mouths and noses and could talk, that's what they did. If I thought I could see devils dancing out of the ground, that's what I saw. If I thought lightning had eyes and would follow me and strike me down, that's what would happen. And I think I needed an outlet for all that imagination, so I found it in books.

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”

Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter

Origine: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Origine: The Kitchen God's Wife

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Variante: Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
Origine: The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

“Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Contesto: I've long thought about how life is influenced by death, how it influences what you believe in and what you look for. Yes, I think I was pushed in a way to write this book by certain spirits — the yin people — in my life. They've always been there, I wouldn't say to help, but to kick me in the ass to write.... Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect. People have such terrible assumptions about ghosts — you know, phantoms that haunt you, that make you scared, that turn the house upside down. Yin people are not in our living presence but are around, and kind of guide you to insights. Like in Las Vegas when the bells go off, telling you you've hit the jackpot. Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule.... To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.

“I have always known a thing before it happens.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 14, pg. 243

“My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
Contesto: My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
"Libby-ah," she'll say to me. "Guess who I see yesterday, you guess." And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.

“I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections. All of us go through angst and identity crises. And even when you write in a specific context, you still tap into that subtext of emotions that we all feel about love and hope, and mothers and obligations and responsibilities.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Contesto: Other Asian-American writers just shudder when they are compared to me; it really denigrates the uniqueness of their own work. I find it happening less here partly because people are more aware now of the flaws of political correctness — that literature has to do something to educate people. I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections. All of us go through angst and identity crises. And even when you write in a specific context, you still tap into that subtext of emotions that we all feel about love and hope, and mothers and obligations and responsibilities.

“Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule. … To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Contesto: I've long thought about how life is influenced by death, how it influences what you believe in and what you look for. Yes, I think I was pushed in a way to write this book by certain spirits — the yin people — in my life. They've always been there, I wouldn't say to help, but to kick me in the ass to write.... Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect. People have such terrible assumptions about ghosts — you know, phantoms that haunt you, that make you scared, that turn the house upside down. Yin people are not in our living presence but are around, and kind of guide you to insights. Like in Las Vegas when the bells go off, telling you you've hit the jackpot. Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule.... To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.

“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”

Amy Tan libro Saving Fish from Drowning

Origine: Saving Fish from Drowning

“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Origine: The Joy Luck Club

“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”

Amy Tan libro Saving Fish from Drowning

Origine: Saving Fish from Drowning

“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Origine: The Hundred Secret Senses

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