Trigger Warning
Amy Tan was born on this day in 1952. Literary Heist challenges you, in the style of Amy Tan, to write a short story submission.
Works
- The Joy Luck Club
- Two Kinds
Awards
- 1989, Finalist National Book Award for The Joy Luck Club
- 1989, Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for The Joy Luck Club
- Finalist Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize
- Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
- Commonwealth Gold Award
- American Library Association’s Notable Books
- American Library Association’s Best Book for Young Adults
- 2005-2006, Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Honorable Mention for Saving Fish From Drowning
- The Joy Luck Club selected for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read
- New York Times Notable Book
- Booklist Editors Choice
- Finalist for the Orange Prize
- Nominated for the Orange Prize
- Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award
- Audie Award: Best Non-fiction, Abridged
- Parents’ Choice Award, Best Television Program for Children
- Shortlisted British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, best screenplay adaptation
- Shortlisted WGA Award, best screenplay adaptation
- 1996, Academy of Achievement, Golden Plate Award
Quotes
- If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
- We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
- Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.
- I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
- Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
- I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
- You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!
- It’s both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
- I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure.
- I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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