Assume Quote by Amy Bloom Download Open image “I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.” — Amy Bloom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assume Down Fail Failure Fall Going Most Time Writer Writing
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
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I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass. — Brandon Sanderson 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
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. They said to one another, What a character he is, Otto, strictly old country, I'm telling you. Gus didn't think that Negroes would rush to shop in a store run by some retired slave owner, eager… — 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 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
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 Image
We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I… — Jase Robertson Copy Share Image
I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
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Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Although we often assume that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. By pushing myself to act happier, I make myself feel… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
