138 Quotes by Amy Bloom

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

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.

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

'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.

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

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.

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.