Amy Waldman

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

— Amy Waldman

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

— Amy Waldman

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

“She ate ramen noodles from the vending machine, their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them.”

— Amy Waldman

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we…

— Amy Waldman

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

— Amy Waldman

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

— Amy Waldman

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

— Amy Waldman

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

— Amy Waldman

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing…

— Amy Waldman

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are…

— Amy Waldman

“Don't succumb to the fear; don't mistake the absolutism of Khan's opposition for morality”

— Amy Waldman

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

— Amy Waldman

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research…

— Amy Waldman

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an…

— Amy Waldman

“She knew well the history of which they spoke because her father had been a part of it. When the military overseers…

— Amy Waldman

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

— Amy Waldman

While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to…

— Amy Waldman

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach…

— Amy Waldman

“Stumble on joy"--the phrase had knocked something loose in him. Joy: What did it feel like? Trying to remember, he was overcome…

— Amy Waldman

“Debbie's facts coincided miraculously with her opinions”

— Amy Waldman

In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these…

— Amy Waldman

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That…

— Amy Waldman

I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks,…

— Amy Waldman

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and…

— Amy Waldman