All Amy Bloom Quotes
- It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more… Best
- Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited… Active
- I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim… Best
- Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. Inspirational
- All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious. All
- Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults. Faults
- Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your… Bomb
- In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give… Add
- Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries… Allow
- I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I… Beaten
- Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. Better
- There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. Bad
- Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they… All
- Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. Faults
- You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary. Cannot Fake
- they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song. All
- Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of… Confession
- I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness. Even Kindness
- Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them. Inspirational
- The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. Candle
- Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of… Balance
- A blind man can see how much I love you Blind
- You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. Beautiful
- Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled,… Arms
- I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. Genes