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
assume time writer
I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.
apparently except home job
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.
readers
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
almost entire learned life scripts
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.
work
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.
overall
I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.
becomes characters good matter sentences
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.
ends family fictional
'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.
elegant great pleasure stories
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
occasions
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.
anyone tale
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.
hide love society writers
I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?
believed certainly conveyed living outside people reason smart strongly work
My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.
actual confused genuinely happiness mindless modestly pursuit
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.