Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 19. Februar 1952 |
Geburtsort | Oakland |
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Beschreibung | Amy Tan (chinesisch: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Ēnměi) (* 19. Februar 1952 in Oakland, Kalifornien) ist eine chinesischstämmige amerikanische Schriftstellerin und gehört zu den führenden Vertreterinnen der zeitgenössischen chinesisch-amerikanischen Literatur. Tan schreibt in ihren Werken über die Begegnung der traditionell chinesischen mit den amerikanischen Sitten. |
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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 for success.
