Amy Hempel Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

  Amy Hempel

  Giving, Mind, Three

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

• There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

  Amy Hempel

  Character, Giving, Downtown

• 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.

  Amy Hempel

  Reading, Writing, Giving

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