Amy Tan Quotes about Memories

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

Memories, Imagination

Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.27, Penguin

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

Amy Tan

Memories, Missing, Together

Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.337, Penguin

I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

Amy Tan

Memories

"Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.

Amy Tan

Memories, Imagination, Different

Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.75, Penguin

And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.

Amy Tan

Memories, Littles, Way

Amy Tan (1991). “The kitchen god's wife”, Random House, Inc.