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 had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“...as he cannot sleep on Helen's side, which is where he has secretly arranged three of her embroidered pillows, and sleeps facing… — Amy Bloom Sleep Copy Share Image
Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint… — Amy Bloom Saint Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to… — Amy Bloom 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
My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before… — Amy Bloom America 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
“Clare is good, spiky company, and she is the very best companion to have in a bad situation. Trouble brings out the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Clara said that Billie Holiday woke up crying. Clara said that if you sing the blues, you know that if you can’t… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of… — Amy Bloom Actor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. Its a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own… — Amy Bloom Balance Copy Share Image
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its… — Amy Bloom Beauty Copy Share Image
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come… — Amy Bloom Grief Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
