I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. — Amy Bloom Books Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own… — Amy Bloom Albums Copy Share Image
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better... — Amy Bloom Aging Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Books Copy Share Image
“I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.” — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“My father quoted everyone, from Shakespeare to Emerson, on the subject of destiny, and then he'd point out that except for the… — Amy Bloom Astronomy Copy Share Image
Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that… — Amy Bloom Autonomy Copy Share Image
I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as… — Amy Bloom Happiness Copy Share Image
“We finished off a small pie and when we got home I washed the tomato sauce out of her hair, which I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“The knock-kneed brown moose, a tired group of ten, yards ahead of her for the last three days, comfort her too. It's… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom Communication Copy Share Image
My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one -… — Amy Bloom Beach Copy Share Image
I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“William snorts and wakes up, his hair wild and waving like silver palm fronds. He looks like he might have had a… — Amy Bloom Bad dream Copy Share Image
“In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's very hard, "Clare says, sitting down slowly and not too close. "Oh, I miss him so much. I didn't know.… — Amy Bloom Happy ending Copy Share Image
“The German deli was run by a distant cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Great Neck Jews loved the place; they flocked… — Amy Bloom Fun time Copy Share Image
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. — Amy Bloom Candle Copy Share Image
Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb… — Amy Bloom Bombs Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for… — Amy Bloom Brave Copy Share Image
I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. — Amy Bloom Being real Copy Share Image
I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.' — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
