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
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting. Amy Bloom actualappealinglyconfuse 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
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. Amy Bloom listenshutteach Change image and share on social
I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has. Amy Bloom adultentirefamily 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
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things. Amy Bloom badfindgood Change image and share on social
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. Amy Bloom adamaliceauden share on social
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too. Amy Bloom basefeelreader share on social