Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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 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
My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work… — 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
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 Image
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 people that… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
