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
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.
elegant great pleasure stories
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
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.
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.
overall
I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.
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.
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.
panties stores
I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.
kindness people shyness
I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
lying grief mean
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.
love-you men blind
A blind man can see how much I love you
perseverance team winning
I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
distance past comfort
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
song waiting
they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.