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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

Topics: Anyone Anyone Else Cities Dickens Did Else Girl Little Little Girl Sydney Tale Think Thought Two

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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

Topics: Compose Extraordinary Get How Interesting Know Matter Me Most Paid People Read Related Sentences Stories Tell Them Things Who Write

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There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Admire Dark His Materials Philip Trilogy Two

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Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Certainly Listen Shut Shut Up Teaches Therapist Training Up Useful Writer You

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I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Dumb Find No Reason Readers Reason Smart Very Write

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I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Any Apparently Being Could Except Fancy Home Job Like Other Thing Think Writer You

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'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

Topics: Albums Could Description Ends Enough Family Fictional Get Lucky My Own Never Novel Own Photo Photograph Us

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My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: About Beautiful Black Cocktail Favorite Glamorous Hat Her Herself Know Lipstick Mother Nothing Old Photograph Smart Suit Table Twenty-Four Utterly Woman Years

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The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Any Never Subject Taboo Think Truth Truth Is

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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

Topics: Act Aunt Cocktail Great Maids Minor Much Opera Parties Retired Sister Sort Stars Theater Uncle Used Very Were Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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