Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom
Amy Bloomis an American writer and psychotherapist. She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
people related sentences stories
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.
based believe mainly time writers
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.
best people work written
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.
anyone cop happens mind reasons took understand
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.
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My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.
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My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.
appears characters plays sort
Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.
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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
liars writing good-writers
There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
intimacy true-intimacy
All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
intimacy persons known
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
perseverance effort fake
You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.
stories lasts depth
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.
kindness people shyness
I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.