Beach Quote by Amy Bloom

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

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

— Amy Bloom

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

— Amy Bloom

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

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

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

'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

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

“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

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

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

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