Compulsive Pessimist Quotes by Amy Waldman

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

— Amy Waldman

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

— Amy Waldman

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

“She ate ramen noodles from the vending machine, their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them.”

— Amy Waldman

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

— Amy Waldman

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

— Amy Waldman

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

— Amy Waldman

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

— Amy Waldman

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

— Amy Waldman

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

— Amy Waldman

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something…

— Amy Waldman

“Don't succumb to the fear; don't mistake the absolutism of Khan's opposition for morality”

— Amy Waldman