Amy Tan citáty

Amy Tanová je současná americká spisovatelka s čínskými kořeny. Narodila se v Oaklandu v Kalifornii čínským imigrantům Johnovi a Daisy Tanovým dva a půl roku poté, co se přistěhovali do Spojených států.

Ve svých dílech se často zabývá vztahem mezi matkou a dcerou a zároveň problematikou imigrace. Přestože vyhrála několik ocenění, bývá jí vyčítáno, že ve svých dílech Číňany popisuje podle zažitých stereotypů, které o nich panují v západním světě. Zároveň ani čínskou kulturu nezobrazuje v tom nejlepším světle.Lily Lee o ní napsala, že za svou popularitu vděčí západnímu světu a jeho čtenářům, kterým toto stereotypní pojetí vyhovuje. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. únor 1952   •   Další jména Amy Tanová
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Amy Tan: Citáty anglicky

“That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”

Amy Tan kniha The Bonesetter's Daughter

Zdroj: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.
-Lindo”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

American Acheivement interview (1996)
Zdroj: The Joy Luck Club
Kontext: Reading for me was a refuge. I could escape from everything that was miserable in my life and I could be anyone I wanted to be in a story, through a character. It was almost sinful how much I liked it. That's how I felt about it. If my parents knew how much I loved it, I thought they would take it away from me. I think I was also blessed with a very wild imagination because I can remember, when I was at an age before I could read, that I could imagine things that weren't real and whatever my imagination saw is what I actually saw. Some people would say that was psychosis but I prefer to say it was the beginning of a writer's imagination. If I believed that insects had eyes and mouths and noses and could talk, that's what they did. If I thought I could see devils dancing out of the ground, that's what I saw. If I thought lightning had eyes and would follow me and strike me down, that's what would happen. And I think I needed an outlet for all that imagination, so I found it in books.

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”

Amy Tan kniha The Bonesetter's Daughter

Zdroj: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Zdroj: The Kitchen God's Wife

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Varianta: Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
Zdroj: The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

“Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Kontext: I've long thought about how life is influenced by death, how it influences what you believe in and what you look for. Yes, I think I was pushed in a way to write this book by certain spirits — the yin people — in my life. They've always been there, I wouldn't say to help, but to kick me in the ass to write.... Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect. People have such terrible assumptions about ghosts — you know, phantoms that haunt you, that make you scared, that turn the house upside down. Yin people are not in our living presence but are around, and kind of guide you to insights. Like in Las Vegas when the bells go off, telling you you've hit the jackpot. Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule.... To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.

“I have always known a thing before it happens.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 14, pg. 243

“My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
Kontext: My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
"Libby-ah," she'll say to me. "Guess who I see yesterday, you guess." And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.

“I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections. All of us go through angst and identity crises. And even when you write in a specific context, you still tap into that subtext of emotions that we all feel about love and hope, and mothers and obligations and responsibilities.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Kontext: Other Asian-American writers just shudder when they are compared to me; it really denigrates the uniqueness of their own work. I find it happening less here partly because people are more aware now of the flaws of political correctness — that literature has to do something to educate people. I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections. All of us go through angst and identity crises. And even when you write in a specific context, you still tap into that subtext of emotions that we all feel about love and hope, and mothers and obligations and responsibilities.

“Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule. … To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Kontext: I've long thought about how life is influenced by death, how it influences what you believe in and what you look for. Yes, I think I was pushed in a way to write this book by certain spirits — the yin people — in my life. They've always been there, I wouldn't say to help, but to kick me in the ass to write.... Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect. People have such terrible assumptions about ghosts — you know, phantoms that haunt you, that make you scared, that turn the house upside down. Yin people are not in our living presence but are around, and kind of guide you to insights. Like in Las Vegas when the bells go off, telling you you've hit the jackpot. Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule.... To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.

“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”

Amy Tan kniha Saving Fish from Drowning

Zdroj: Saving Fish from Drowning

“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Zdroj: The Joy Luck Club

“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”

Amy Tan kniha Saving Fish from Drowning

Zdroj: Saving Fish from Drowning

“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Zdroj: The Hundred Secret Senses

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