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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.

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.

Amy Tan
Feelings, Magic, Kind
"Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

Amy Tan
Hands, Magic, Fiction
Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.114, Penguin

I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.

Amy Tan
Magic, Worst, Know How
Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.103, Penguin

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