Amy Bloom

“Love is not a pie.”

— Amy Bloom

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

— Amy Bloom

“It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day.”

— Amy Bloom

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

— Amy Bloom

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

— Amy Bloom

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

— Amy Bloom

“These were my people: the abandoned, the unloved, the phenomenally unlucky.”

— Amy Bloom

“Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits.”

— Amy Bloom

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

— Amy Bloom

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed…

— Amy Bloom

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

— Amy Bloom

I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not,…

— Amy Bloom

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and…

— Amy Bloom

“Eviction," Frieda said. "You can't pay, you can't stay." She said in Yiddish, "Es iz shver tzu makhen a leben." It's hard…

— Amy Bloom

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark,…

— Amy Bloom

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

— Amy Bloom

“She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.”

— Amy Bloom

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what…

— 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

I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,…

— 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

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of…

— Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe,…

— Amy Bloom

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make…

— 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

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.…

— Amy Bloom

“Two starving Jews, Mr. Cohen and Mr. Ellenbogen, are sitting on a park bench, sharing their last piece of bread. They look…

— Amy Bloom

“AB: It’s a great gift. It was the training: to listen, to observe. Those skills are very much what you need as…

— Amy Bloom

“Surely, somewhere in the back of Bulfinch, in a part Lillian had not gotten to, there is an obscure (abstruse, arcane, shadowy,…

— Amy Bloom

Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip…

— 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

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I…

— Amy Bloom

“Sometimes it's the case that when you hear the thing you have most wanted to hear, you cannot take it in. Hope…

— Amy Bloom

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

— Amy Bloom

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

— Amy Bloom

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

— Amy Bloom

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

— Amy Bloom

they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.

— Amy Bloom

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

— Amy Bloom

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

— Amy Bloom