Top 56 Quotes by Amy Bloom

About Amy Bloom

These are some quotes by American author Amy Bloom Writer, who was born in 1953.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Amy Bloom

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.

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

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Amy Bloom

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Amy Bloom

My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

Amy Bloom

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.

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

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

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