Amy Bloom

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

Amy Bloom

All intimacy is rare – that’s what makes it precious.

Amy Bloom

The past is a candle at a great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Amy Bloom

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

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better.

Amy Bloom

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

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

Amy Bloom

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Amy Bloom

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

Amy Bloom

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