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I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Apparently Choose Hide Jews Love Make Me Most Really Society Subjects Themes Then Think Topics Us Why Writers I Think

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We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Between Fascinating Find Harmony Occasions Our Struggles Two Well

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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

Topics: Ages Am Between Desire Dive Even Everyone Fall Head Hearts Immune Interested Interesting Lives Love Makes Me More Mortality Our People Principle Sky Some Some People Struggle Struggles Those Which Who I Am

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I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Ball Broken Cool Covers Dodge Dusty Edge Floor Glasses Having Kind Library Lying Pink Playground Public Public Library Reader Sitting Standing Tooth

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I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Come Done Embarrassment Failed Grown Me Plenty Remain Said Say Sources Things Up Woman I Can

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My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Any Believed Certainly Conveyed Could Did Father Had He Living Make Office Other Outside Own People Reason Sister Smart Smart People Strongly Very Want Why Work

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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

Topics: Adult Adult Life Anything Anything Else Being Else Entire Family Had Informed Kids Life Much My Life Part Raising Started Suspect Writer

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My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Any Been Degree Father Institution Kind Lesser Me Suspect Too True Working Would

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I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: About Familiar Lot Research Something Work Writing

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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

Topics: About Am Because Before Close Her Maybe Me Much Never Occurred Sister Sisters Very Write Written I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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