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Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Also Around Behave Finish Great Happening Hear How Just Keep Mouth People Say Saying See Sentences Shut Them They Say Training While Writing You Your

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My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: America Apartment Before Divide Grandchildren Grandmother Heard Her Life Nice Nice Life

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I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

~Amy Bloom

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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

Topics: Accordingly Am Bring Every Form Guess History Job Letter Life Like Own People Reader Say Sending Sentences Shape Story Them Will You I Am

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I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Compelling Everybody Find Necessity Out Period Reinventing Themselves Very Whether 1940S

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If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Alive Becomes Cake Characters Good How Just Matter Me Sentences

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My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

~Amy Bloom

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My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Anyone Audience Behavior Fascinating Finds Funny Human Human Behavior Inspiring Interesting Mysterious Occasionally Target Terrible Who World

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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

Topics: Alice Also Austen Been Dickens Ever Every Fine Influenced Jane Oscar Oscar Wilde Paintings Plays Read Short Short Stories Stories Sure Wilde Writer

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I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.

~Amy Bloom

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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