"I sleep with a glass of water on……" — Amy Hempel
"I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me."
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59 Quotes by Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel has 59 quotes on this site.
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Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't…
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Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
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I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I…
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette…
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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe,…
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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
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More Coastal Quotes
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to…
— Alistair Cooke
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It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort,…
— Ted Danson
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The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on…
— Douglas Bader
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Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will…
— Joseph J. Romm
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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will…
— Lester R. Brown
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Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production,…
— Nicholas Stern
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I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab…
— Anjelica Huston
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and…
— Philip Larkin
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If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend…
— Joseph J. Romm
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We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner…
— William J. Clinton
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