I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. — 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 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 think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — 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'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
