Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything. — Steven Amsterdam Bats Copy Share Image
I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would. — Steven Amsterdam Conscious Copy Share Image
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're… — Steven Amsterdam Advise Copy Share Image
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having… — Steven Amsterdam Bad time Copy Share Image
The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have. — Steven Amsterdam Accepting Copy Share Image
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like. — Steven Amsterdam Describing Copy Share Image
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial… — Steven Amsterdam Ability Copy Share Image
I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing.… — Steven Amsterdam Certain Copy Share Image
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Attention Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades,… — Steven Amsterdam Book Copy Share Image
