Amy Bloom Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Lying, Grief, Writing

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.

  Amy Bloom

  Panties, Stores

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.3, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Depth, Stories, Lasts

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• Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

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  Husband, Real, Vices

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• My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

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  Writing, Process, Avoiding

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction”, p.225, Random House

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• I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

  Amy Bloom

  World, Safe, Guilty

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.89, Pan Macmillan

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• All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

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  Intimacy, True Intimacy

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• I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

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  Kindness, People, Shyness

  Amy Bloom (2015). “Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories”, p.36, Granta Books

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• 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.

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  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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