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
men men-and-women
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
intimacy persons known
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
chance aging
Aging is a chance to make what was good, great; and what was never so good, better.
writing practice differences
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.
self people connections
Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.
real being-real faults
Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
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.
business fiction morning rest work
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.