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Amy Bloom quotes: Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Amy Bloom quotes: People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
Amy Bloom quotes: So we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat. So we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.
Amy Bloom quotes: Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn't make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so. Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn't make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so.
Amy Bloom quotes: Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms. Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.
Amy Bloom quotes: Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them. Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.
Amy Bloom quotes: I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
Amy Bloom quotes: A blind man can see how much I love you A blind man can see how much I love you
Amy Bloom quotes: You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered. You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered.
Amy Bloom quotes: But in the morning everything can, and must, be seen. Daylight takes us; it peels us like fruit. But in the morning everything can, and must, be seen. Daylight takes us; it peels us like fruit.
Amy Bloom quotes: The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo. The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.
Amy Bloom quotes: Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits. Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits.
Amy Bloom quotes: Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened. Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
Amy Bloom quotes: Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind. Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.
Amy Bloom quotes: 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. 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.
Amy Bloom quotes: I couldn't ask her anything. There wasn't a single question to which I'd get the answer I wanted. I couldn't ask her anything. There wasn't a single question to which I'd get the answer I wanted.
Amy Bloom quotes: married. Edgar went back into the parlor married. Edgar went back into the parlor
Amy Bloom quotes: The Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.) The Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)
Amy Bloom quotes: They danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song. They danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.
Amy Bloom quotes: Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
Amy Bloom quotes: Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults. Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
Amy Bloom quotes: If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait. If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait.
Amy Bloom quotes: Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things. Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
Amy Bloom quotes: I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.
Amy Bloom quotes: For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
Amy Bloom quotes: Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
Amy Bloom quotes: The greatest struggle in my life is between a dignified silence and having my say The greatest struggle in my life is between a dignified silence and having my say
Amy Bloom quotes: Moving forward only because backward wasn't possible. Moving forward only because backward wasn't possible.
Amy Bloom quotes: Memory seems as faulty, as misunderstood and misguided, as every other thought or spasm that passes through us. Memory seems as faulty, as misunderstood and misguided, as every other thought or spasm that passes through us.
Amy Bloom quotes: I'm overall a big fan of President Obama. I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.
Amy Bloom quotes: You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary. You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.
Amy Bloom quotes: I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail. I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.
Amy Bloom quotes: We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating. We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.
Amy Bloom quotes: People," he said. "They can't be underestimated. People," he said. "They can't be underestimated.
Amy Bloom quotes: I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home. I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
Amy Bloom quotes: Some people bounced back from a train wreck and some people couldn't get over a bee sting. Some people bounced back from a train wreck and some people couldn't get over a bee sting.
Amy Bloom quotes: I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.
Amy Bloom quotes: I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with. I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
Amy Bloom quotes: The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
Amy Bloom quotes: I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.
Amy Bloom quotes: She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not. She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.
Amy Bloom quotes: 'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. 'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
Amy Bloom quotes: There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.' There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
Amy Bloom quotes: My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.
Amy Bloom quotes: You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom quotes: Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Amy Bloom quotes: My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
Amy Bloom quotes: Love is not a pie. Love is not a pie.
Amy Bloom quotes: I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave. I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.
Amy Bloom quotes: These were my people: the abandoned, the unloved, the phenomenally unlucky. These were my people: the abandoned, the unloved, the phenomenally unlucky.
Amy Bloom quotes: Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
Amy Bloom quotes: Eviction," Frieda said. "You can't pay, you can't stay." She said in Yiddish, "Es iz shver tzu makhen a leben." It's hard to make a living. Eviction," Frieda said. "You can't pay, you can't stay." She said in Yiddish, "Es iz shver tzu makhen a leben." It's hard to make a living.
Amy Bloom quotes: I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness. I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
Amy Bloom quotes: We live and we love the world, Lillian thinks, and we kid ourselves that the world loves us back. We live and we love the world, Lillian thinks, and we kid ourselves that the world loves us back.
Amy Bloom quotes: When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did. When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.
Amy Bloom quotes: Literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. Literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Amy Bloom quotes: It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day. It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day.
Amy Bloom quotes: All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious. All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
Amy Bloom quotes: I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable. I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.
Amy Bloom quotes: Aging is a chance to make what was good, great; and what was never so good, better. Aging is a chance to make what was good, great; and what was never so good, better.
Amy Bloom quotes: There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
Amy Bloom quotes: The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

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