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
leader good-leader following
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
bigs come-up mediums
I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.
wanted
Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
dream needs
Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
panic rational
I get rational when I panic.
would-be moments sentences
As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.
telling-the-truth
I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
good-night dog children
Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
thinking hands talking
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
thinking men ifs
What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.
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.