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Amy Bloom

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

People tend to forget that in our country, we’d pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it’s also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that’s part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

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.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

If you’re an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that’s true of me, too.

– Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

– Amy Bloom

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