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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

Topics: Another Beloved Children Each Experience Happen Happy Just Know Love Loving Man Moving Often Other Sit Very Where Woman Wonderful You Your

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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

Topics: Actual Confused Genuinely Get Happiness Interesting Mindless Most Personal Pursuit Sometimes Useful

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To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Adult Amount Any Away Beloved Cannot Dies Faces Fall Fashionable Forever Happiness Hold Keep Knowing Last Mockery Our Passes Petals Pleasure Save Sun Understanding Us Will World

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It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Anyone Because Cop Doctor Every Fascinating Frame Franchise Happens Know Lawyer Me Meaning Meaning Of Mind Most Need New Reasons Right Right Mind Says See Shows Something Something New Thing Took Understand Week While Why World You

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I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Big Big Fan Fan Obama Overall President President Obama

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I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Genes Get Heart Impulse Story Tell Think Well I Think

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'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: About Academic Autobiographical Claim Clinical Heard Meant Meant To Be Met Never Normal Objective People Perceptions Stories Strictly Thoughts Work

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Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Any Arc Because Before Both Creativity Easier Facts Fiction Fill Free Gaps Harder Imagination Laid Makes Missing Narrative Nonfiction Out Story Than Use Within Write You Your

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Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

~Amy Bloom

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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

Topics: All Writers Based Because Believe Course Feel Mainly Most Need Readers Same Same Time Themselves Think Time Too Write Writers Writing I Think I Feel I Believe I Believe That

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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