Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it. Amy Bloom badlybookcentury share on social
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. Amy Bloom dumbfindreader Change image and share on social
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. Amy Bloom americancountryforget Change image and share on social
I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her. Amy Bloom closeoccursister Change image and share on social
It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesn't happen very often. Amy Bloom belovedchildexperience share on social
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. Amy Bloom entirelearnlife Change image and share on social
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera. Amy Bloom actauntcocktail Change image and share on social
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends. Amy Bloom businessdayfiction Change image and share on social
I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages. Amy Bloom agedesiredive share on social
I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves. Amy Bloom 1940scompelexcitable Change image and share on social