Amy Hempel Quotes

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

Amy Hempel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1951

Topics

GreatWritingSmallStoryLearnYou

They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.

Joe Jackson

TreatBackKnowRightHimHere

I like to fish. I'm an outdoorsman. I love to hunt and fish.

Steve Zahn

LoveFishLikeHuntI Love

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

Roy Bean

NatureSunMoonFallHarvestGolden

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

Mary Karr

GoodMemoryRememberPhoneI CanUp

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience.

Michel Faber

ExperienceReadingLuxuryMeaningful

With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

Jason Dolley

DayPeopleLovedKindOne DayKid

I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into.

Chris Hardwick

LovePeopleMeCelebrateChanceWay

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Christine Gregoire

DoingYouSayWhyClientsBecause

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

William Temple

LifeBestChildCareQuietDone

The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.

Pete Hoekstra

MorningWorldPlaceSoilWorstMore

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

Nydia Velazquez

GrowthSmallEnvironmentThrive

You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.

Kel Mitchell

YouSauceWhereOnlyHoursMinutes

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