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
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter. Amy Bloom bringformguess share on social
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. Amy Bloom albumdescriptionend Change image and share on social
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did. Amy Bloom cartoncitydicken Change image and 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
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
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 get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary. Amy Bloom composeextraordinaryinterest share on social
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. Amy Bloom avoidconsistdawdle Change image and share on social
