Amy Hempel Quotes
Top 44 wise famous quotes and sayings by Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true - nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed - not sex - but sex was how we got there.
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question than by giving them the answer.
I am not quite myself, I think.
But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.
I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.