And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the… — Amy Hempel Anticipation Copy Share Image
I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up. — Amy Hempel Bigs Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of… — Amy Hempel Book Copy Share Image
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. — Amy Hempel Imagine Copy Share Image
Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life? — Amy Hempel Life Copy Share Image
I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark. — Amy Hempel Giving 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 Behavior Copy Share Image
We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive. — Amy Hempel Alive Copy Share Image
I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story… — Amy Hempel Cases Copy Share Image
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more… — Amy Hempel Confined 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 told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by… — Amy Hempel Compliment Copy Share Image
“You will stand in line for snacks behind good clothes on bad bodies, behind the man who is so drunk he has… — Amy Hempel 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
