I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea… — Amy Hempel Fiction Copy Share Image
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person… — Amy Hempel Asking Copy Share Image
“The neighborhood drug dealer kicks out his wife. He moves in a girlfriend and the wife finds out. The wife lets herself… — Amy Hempel Community Copy Share Image
It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a… — Amy Hempel Bigs Copy Share Image
When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard. — Amy Hempel Beer Copy Share Image
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up… — Amy Hempel Ends Copy Share Image
“I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we… — Amy Hempel Love Copy Share Image
“It’s the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.” — Amy Hempel Nature Copy Share Image
The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone… — Amy Hempel Glad Copy Share Image
Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life? — Amy Hempel Just life Copy Share Image
I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that… — Amy Hempel Animal Copy Share Image
“I think it was that love that I loved. That kind of involvement was reassuring; I felt it would extend to me,… — Amy Hempel Love Copy Share Image
