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
claim meant met people stories strictly work
'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.
best people work written
I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.
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My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.
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.
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.
everybody period whether
I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
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.
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My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.
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Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.