Amy Tan – Finding Meaning Through Writing

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#1 Woolfy on 11.21.09 at 3:51 pm

who is this person ?

#2 KLguy133 on 11.21.09 at 4:39 pm

” I did not go to summer camp!”…What a lot of nonsense…I feel so sorry for you.John K Lindgren CarSanook! Bangkok

#3 apexxxx10 on 11.21.09 at 5:31 pm

“Never got to go to summer camp . . .” what a load of nonsense; oh how terrible that must have been. Try being beaten.

#4 calebp9503 on 11.21.09 at 5:33 pm

This pisses me off…you don’t need to have a bad childhood to be a good writer. It’s all in the imagination…sure, life experiences can fuel your writing, but if you have a really really really really active imagination, you can be just as good as a writer…it’s all in natural talent in my opinion…I’ve written stories of things that have NEVER happened to me…and people have read them and said “wow, i thought i was the only person who went through that..” and I say “i didnt”

#5 fruitikay on 11.21.09 at 6:18 pm

Fruiti, we’re going to have to stop meeting this way…lol. It is about imagination, and definitely about talent, but I think people who have idyllic childhoods tend to spend less time escaping their reality through imagination. But I know you have the experience as a writer that there is always a bit of you in everything you write. And people always seem to love misery much more so than joy.

#6 Bodicea77 on 11.21.09 at 6:47 pm

She said it was a great tradegy, not going to summer camp. She never said it was the worst part. Not to mention, if you know about how her relationship with her mother was when she was young, it might make more sense.

#7 Jolteus on 11.21.09 at 7:07 pm

She said “Here’s one of the worst things. I never got to go to summer camp”

#8 000266617 on 11.21.09 at 7:54 pm

Sorry, missed the question. I’ve read an interview or two by her, and I don’t see any  details of an extradordinarly bad childhood.I know that some Asian men complained about “The Joy Luck Club”

#9 000266617 on 11.21.09 at 8:23 pm

Oh, I see. Thank you.

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