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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them. — Amy Hempel

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. — Amy Hempel

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey. — Amy Hempel

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me. — Amy Hempel

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true - nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be. — Amy Hempel

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time. — Amy Hempel

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel

Dreams: the place most of us get what we need. — Amy Hempel

I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back. — Amy Hempel

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. — Amy Hempel

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak. — Amy Hempel

Just once in my life
oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life? — Amy Hempel

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. — Amy Hempel

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed. — Amy Hempel

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. — Amy Hempel

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open. — Amy Hempel

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. — Amy Hempel

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive. — Amy Hempel

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive. — Amy Hempel

It's the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself. — Amy Hempel

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. — Amy Hempel

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up. — Amy Hempel

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry. — Amy Hempel

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even. — Amy Hempel

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story. — Amy Hempel

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. — Amy Hempel

Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it. — Amy Hempel

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel

I believe that 99 percent of what anyone does can effectively be postponed. — Amy Hempel

I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me. — Amy Hempel

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing. — Amy Hempel

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over. — Amy Hempel

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. — Chuck Palahniuk

When the beer is gone, so are they
flexing their cars on up the boulevard. — Amy Hempel

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. — Amy Hempel

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. — Amy Hempel

Consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless. — Amy Hempel

I get rational when I panic. — Amy Hempel