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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Amy Bloom

I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight,…

— Amy Bloom

“The German deli was run by a distant cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Great Neck Jews loved the place; they flocked…

— Amy Bloom

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and…

— 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…

— Amy Bloom

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for…

— Amy Bloom

My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser…

— Amy Bloom

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. Its a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own…

— Amy Bloom

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

— Amy Bloom

“She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it…

— Amy Bloom

“Clare is good, spiky company, and she is the very best companion to have in a bad situation. Trouble brings out the…

— Amy Bloom

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and…

— Amy Bloom

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their…

— Amy Bloom

My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very…

— Amy Bloom

My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before…

— Amy Bloom

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history…

— Amy Bloom

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have…

— Amy Bloom

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could…

— Amy Bloom

I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this…

— Amy Bloom