--- title: "7 Short Quotes By Amy Bloom" description: "7 Short quotes by Amy Bloom. Plus more from Amy Bloom and more Short sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/amy-bloom-4288_alice_i-m-sure-i-ve-been-influenced-by-every-f_66402.png" --- > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/i-m-sure-i-ve-been-influenced-by-every-fine-writer-i-ve-ever-read/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/amy-bloom-4288_alice_i-m-sure-i-ve-been-influenced-by-every-f_66402.png) > [If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/if-you-re-an-american-reader-you-can-love-short-stories-the-way-other/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e86/amy-bloom-4288_american_if-you-re-an-american-reader-you-can-lov_192285.png) > [Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/plays-are-wonderfully-different-than-short-stories-first-because-it-s/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/amy-bloom-4288_actor_plays-are-wonderfully-different-than-sho_880318.png) > [Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/short-stories-have-no-net-the-writer-cannot-take-a-leisurely-sixty/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f2/amy-bloom-4288_alter_short-stories-have-no-net-the-writer-can_1286807.jpg) > [The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/the-great-pleasure-for-me-in-writing-short-stories-is-the-fierce/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f7/amy-bloom-4288_challenge_the-great-pleasure-for-me-in-writing-sho_1632606.png) > [I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/i-do-find-it-challenging-to-leave-stuff-out-two-of-my-models-for/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/255/amy-bloom-4288_able_i-do-find-it-challenging-to-leave-stuff_2177869.jpg) > [For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/for-me-the-short-story-is-the-depth-of-a-novel-the-breadth-of-a-poem/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/amy-bloom-4288_books_for-me-the-short-story-is-the-depth-of-a_3081805.png) ## Other authors on Short ## More by Amy Bloom > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/i-m-sure-i-ve-been-influenced-by-every-fine-writer-i-ve-ever-read/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/my-target-audience-is-anyone-who-finds-the-world-interesting-and/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/i-assume-as-a-writer-that-most-of-the-time-i-m-going-to-fall-down-and/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/it-is-a-wonderful-moving-heart-filling-experience-to-sit-with-the-man/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/if-you-re-an-american-reader-you-can-love-short-stories-the-way-other/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/my-father-certainly-believed-that-one-could-make-a-living-outside-of/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > ['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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/normal-is-not-clinical-it-s-not-autobiographical-and-i-don-t-claim-to/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight, color, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/i-am-all-for-loving-relationships-in-which-the-couple-at-the-center/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/the-german-deli-was-run-by-a-distant-cousin-of-kaiser-wilhelm-and-the/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/i-met-jay-jonhson-i-won-him-the-way-poor-people-occasionally-win-the/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/actual-happiness-is-sometimes-confused-with-the-pursuit-of-it-and-the/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/smart-people-often-talk-trash-about-happiness-and-worse-than-trash/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/my-father-would-have-been-spectacularly-ill-suited-to-working-for-an/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [Marriage is not a ritual or an end. Its a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/marriage-is-not-a-ritual-or-an-end-its-a-long-intricate-intimate/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) > [All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-bloom/all-intimacy-is-rare-that-s-what-makes-it-precious/) [Amy Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-bloom/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/short/amy-bloom/#itemlist", "name": "7 Short Quotes By Amy Bloom", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. 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