Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempelis an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at Bennington College and University of Florida...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 December 1951
CountryUnited States of America
imagine persons
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
sentences moved
I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
thinking space saws
The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
thinking laughing cartoon
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.
spiritual thinking looks
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
exaggerated
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
waiting remember enjoy
He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
opportunity preparation luck
There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
night sea land
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.
love-is calling
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
trouble
nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
thinking way
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.
beer car gone
When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
envy waiting tumbling
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.