Amy Bloom Quotes
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.
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.
Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.
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.
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
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.
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
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.
