Looking back, which parts of your working life mattered, and which parts only seemed important at the time?

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Amy Tan Novelist; author of The Joy Luck Club

I would say that half of it was adversity. It was people discouraging me that got me into writing. I had a partner, a business partner, who ended up cheating me, as a matter of fact.

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