Amy Bloom quotes - page 3

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, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing. (Amy Bloom)
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. View quote
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I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail. View quote
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I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves. View quote
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If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting. View quote
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My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth. View quote
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I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that. View quote
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I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary. View quote
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Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. View quote
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I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. View quote
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Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting. (Amy Bloom)
If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity. View quote
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