If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser… — 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
I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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… — 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 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 spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles… — 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
