Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempelis an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at Bennington College and University of Florida...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 December 1951
CountryUnited States of America
thinking men ifs
What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.
beautiful hurt skins
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
night sea land
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.
exaggerated
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
spiritual thinking looks
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
thinking space saws
The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
sentences moved
I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
love-is calling
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
opportunity preparation luck
There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
happens knows
He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
dog writing numbers
I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.
character people stories
I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.
beer car gone
When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
reading writing giving
Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.