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
hands giving people
In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.
children moving heart
It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesnt happen very often.
interesting people bad-things
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
memories dark two
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
people arms matter
Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.
beauty beautiful sexy
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
marriage love-you long
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
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.
readers
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
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.
assume time writer
I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.
philip
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
books centuries happiness people pursuing trash worse
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.
anyone audience behavior finds funny human target
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.