Amy Tan Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

  Amy Tan

  Tools, Use, Language

• Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Chinese, World

• No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

  Amy Tan

  Reality, Two, Different

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.189, Penguin

• He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.

  Amy Tan

  Morning, Stars, Sunset

• I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Simple, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.181, Penguin

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