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Novelist; author of The Joy Luck Club
United States · b. 1952
Amy Tan is an American novelist whose first book, The Joy Luck Club, was published in 1989 and adapted for film in 1993. Her fiction draws on the lives of Chinese American families and the relationships between immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters.
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I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure. I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than success. The success took me by surprise and it frightened me.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 1996 source ↗
I go back to this idea that I only discovered when I was older. I wish I had known it when I was younger, because I think I missed a lot of observations in life. That is to develop your own philosophy. I always thought philosophy was one of the most useless subjects in the world.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 1996 source ↗
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