Amy Bloom

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Amy Bloom

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Amy Bloom

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

Amy Bloom

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

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Amy Bloom

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

Amy Bloom

I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else’s life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

Amy Bloom

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

Amy Bloom

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

Amy Bloom

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