Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip onto a barely related subject, or slack off in the last forty pages. Everything is right now, right… — 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
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. — Amy Bloom Copy Share
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
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
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
'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
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
“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
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
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
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
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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. Its a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share
