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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. » Amy Bloom
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. » Amy Bloom
People tend to forget that in our country, we’d pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. » Amy Bloom
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. » Amy Bloom
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. » Amy Bloom
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. » Amy Bloom
Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms. » Amy Bloom
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities.’ I don’t think anyone else did. » Amy Bloom
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things. » Amy Bloom
‘Lucky Us’ ends with a description of a photograph of the novel’s fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. » Amy Bloom
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don’t work at weekends. » Amy Bloom
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn’t have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments. » Amy Bloom
The library is every child’s lighthouse. It is every person’s sanctuary. It is every town and county’s fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior. » Amy Bloom
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened. » Amy Bloom
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. » Amy Bloom
Keep your mouth shut and see what’s happening around you. Don’t finish people’s sentences for them. Don’t just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they’re saying it. That was great training for writing. » Amy Bloom
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries – just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it. » Amy Bloom
We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating. » Amy Bloom
I’ve had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has. » Amy Bloom
I assume as a writer that most of the time I’m going to fall down and fail. » Amy Blooms
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose – and people who aren’t related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary. » Amy Bloom
If you’re an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity. » Amy Bloom
Whenever you see shrinks on television, they’re so clearly written by patients. They’re either idealized or they’re demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients. » Amy Bloom
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. » Amy Bloom
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. » Amy Bloom
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too. » Amy Bloom
‘Normal’ is not clinical, it’s not autobiographical, and I don’t claim to be objective. It’s strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work. » Amy Bloom
My grandmother tended to divide life into ‘nice’ and ‘not so nice.’ Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: ‘nice’; life before 1915: ‘not so nice.’ That’s all I heard. » Amy Bloom
I’ve written the best work I know how. And I’m appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work – and that’s pretty much the end of that. » Amy Bloom
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it’s happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience. » Amy Bloom
I usually don’t have to do a lot of research in my work, as I’m writing about something I’m already familiar with. » Amy Bloom
I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don’t always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate – the difference between what we think and how we feel. » Amy Bloom
My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one – but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it’s his comfort food. » Amy Bloom
I’m a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I’ve done and said or didn’t say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment. » Amy Bloom
I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves. » Amy Bloom
If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn’t matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting. » Amy Bloom
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies’s ‘The Deptford Trilogy’ and Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials.’ » Amy Bloom
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it’s like I am sending them a letter. » Amy Bloom
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. » Amy Bloom
I’m sure I’ve been influenced by every fine writer I’ve ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse. » Amy Bloom