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

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Bad Bad People Bad Things Doing Find Good Good People Interesting People Things

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People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: American Country Except Forget Immigrants Much Native Native Americans Our People Pretty Tend

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My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Beach Because Comfort Comfort Food Deck Depending Evening Food He His Husband Ideal Kids Lobster Loves Making Meal Over Sauce Sunset Time Varies Winter Year

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

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Avoiding Consists Lot Process Writing Writing Process

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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Breadth Come Depth Experience Few Last Me Novel Paragraphs Poem Short Short Story Story Surprise You

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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.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Always Been Being Children Define Human Human Being Just Just One May Mother Opportunity Our Play Roles Think You

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I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Always Am Articulate Between Difference Easy Feel Gaps How Interested Name Next Piece Sidewalk Things Think Which I Am

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I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Also Around Babysitter Bartender Details Drew Liked Listening Lot Me Other Part People Psychotherapy Rather Spent Suspect Than Time True Waitress Way Well

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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

Topics: Business Day Fiction Husband Like Morning Rest Then Weekends Work Write I Write

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My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: About Deaths Elderly Even Family Hear History Holocaust Illnesses Itself Kept Never Painful Parents Plus Side Spoke Stories Terrible

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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