Amy Tan Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• 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 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

• 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 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.

• Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

  Amy Tan

  Memories, Heart, Noses

  Amy Tan (1992). “The Kitchen God's wife”, Thorndike Pr

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