“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 9
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses
“I have owed you this letter for a very long time — but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.”
Letter to his literary agent, found on his desk after his death in 1968
Writers at Work (1977)
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