I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that… — Amy Hempel Animal Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Linden was beautiful in spirit and in fact. Her wish, she told her daughter, was to be a beautiful woman and… — Amy Hempel Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
“I think it was that love that I loved. That kind of involvement was reassuring; I felt it would extend to me,… — Amy Hempel Love Copy Share Image
“A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time,… — Amy Hempel Story Copy Share Image
Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“I read about a famous mystery writer who worked for one week in a department store. One day she saw a woman… — Amy Hempel Writing Copy Share Image
“It is such a pretty story, told to me by a Cuban woman I met in a bar at the beach. She… — Amy Hempel Dark eyes Copy Share Image
“The neighborhood drug dealer kicks out his wife. He moves in a girlfriend and the wife finds out. The wife lets herself… — Amy Hempel Community Copy Share Image
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
