Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdamis an American writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he also works as a palliative care nurse...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth31 January 1966
CountryUnited States of America
advise family house member needs provide serve
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.
nursing sight smell
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
bats has-beens publishers
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
hands attention fiction
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
writing looks rooms
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.