My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
'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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. — Amy Bloom Copy Share
It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
'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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight, color, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
“The German deli was run by a distant cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Great Neck Jews loved the place; they flocked to Kuch's.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries -… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. Its a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
