"Training to be a therapist teaches you to……" — Amy Bloom
"Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer."
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43 Quotes by Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes…
- Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through…
- I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax…
- Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
- All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
- Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
- Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like…
- In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over,…
- Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy…
- I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb…
- Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
- There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
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