All Amy Bloom Quotes
- 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
- I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at… All
- We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two,… Fascinating
- I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the… Ball
- I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are… Close
- I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing… Compelling
- My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is… Common
- My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. Anyone
- Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. Certainly Useful
- I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. Dumb
- The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo. Any
- My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. Avoiding
- Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just… Been
- 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 useful,… Actual
- To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount… Adult
- I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by… Almost Everything