“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
— Amy Tan
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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.”
— Amy Tan
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“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
— Amy Tan
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“My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.”
— Amy Tan
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“I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.”
— Amy Tan
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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.”
— Amy Tan
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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.”
— Amy Tan
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“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
— Amy Tan
Author: Amy Tan
Category: amazing
Tags: amazing, Amy Tan