Amy Bloom

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

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

Literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Amy Bloom

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Amy Bloom

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Amy Bloom

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

Amy Bloom

The library is every child’s lighthouse. It is every person’s sanctuary. It is every town and county’s fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Amy Bloom

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

Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one’s sense of self.

Amy Bloom

Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation’s greatest hits.

Amy Bloom