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Amy Tan

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"You are special person. Seek to develop your talents."

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Donna Grant

"Im happy to sit and be an ear to listen when the world gets wild but Id much prefer to watch the ways your eyes in sparkle in the midst of convincing me why you love the things you do. It gives me hope that someone else out there feels everything with this much depth and has the willingness to create a beautiful life from it."

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Donna Grant

"Inspiration is the power of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"You were not born to make only a living but to live life."

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Donna Grant

"Seek knowledge. Learning has no end. Learning makes you forever young."

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Donna Grant

"PhD is possible at any age!"

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Donna Grant

"To strive in life, we must either read or write a story."

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Donna Grant

"We find ourselves in the pursuit of our dreams."

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Donna Grant

"Read enough books to build your sacred soul."

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Donna Grant

"You have to believe in your dreams, to reach out for your dreams."

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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."

Hope

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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.'"

Thought

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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."

Writing

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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."

Family

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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."

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."

Pain

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Amy Tan
"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."

Family

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Amy Tan
"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."

Inspirational

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Amy Tan
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."

Life

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