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Amy Tan

"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"

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"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"

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Donna Grant

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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Donna Grant

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

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Donna Grant

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

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Donna Grant

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

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Donna Grant

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

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Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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Donna Grant

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

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Donna Grant

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

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Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Donna Grant

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

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Amy Tan
"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."

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Amy Tan
"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"

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Amy Tan
"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person."

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Amy Tan
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."

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Amy Tan
"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."

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Amy Tan
"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."

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Amy Tan
"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

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Amy Tan
"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."

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Amy Tan
"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"

Creativity

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Amy Tan
"I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice."

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