“And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“Automatic is what I can manage. Isn't there enough to pay attention to OUTSIDE the car? All I want inside a car… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“I like radio personalities, and I like to change lanes. And losing yourself on the freeway is like living at the beach--you're… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time, and they're… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“It is such a pretty story, told to me by a Cuban woman I met in a bar at the beach. She left the… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Linden was beautiful in spirit and in fact. Her wish, she told her daughter, was to be a beautiful woman and surprise people… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“It comes back to the question, whom are you writing for? Who are the readers you want? Who are the people you want to… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back.… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
