Amy Bloom

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Barack Obama is crazy sexy.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.