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Amy Bloom Quotes

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

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Short Fine Sure Been Writer Stories

It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time.

Time Nothing Normal Just Thing

Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.

Jennifer Saunders

Women Men Think Find Personal Odd

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Appearances Unseen Glimpse

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

World Enough You Person Know Living

The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the image is locked forever, but in theatre, there is constant change; each performance is part of the writing process.

Change Writing Theatre Performance

Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.

Jeff Vandermeer

People Impossible Trying Sometimes

If we don't do our job well, then there's no doubt that big, strong companies like Amazon will look into whether they can do better themselves.

Job Strong Better Doubt Look Will

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Personality Death Survive Survival

Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

People America You Outfit Know Want

The Cherokees tried to do everything within the law and wished only to live in peace on their own lands. Yet they were cheated out of their birthright and treated as if they were less than human.

Live Peace Law Human Everything Out

I'm not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it's not like I'm one to say, 'Hey, let's hang out at your house tonight.'

Me Someone House Go Say Leaving

As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make my manuscript better, people who've made careers out of providing careful, constructive criticism to writers. I'm tremendously grateful to them.

Grateful People Criticism Better Out

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