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 Read Quote
If you’re an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity. Amy Bloom Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her. Amy Bloom Read Quote
People tend to forget that in our country, we’d pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. Amy Bloom Read Quote
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it’s like I am sending them a letter. Amy Bloom Read Quote
I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves. Amy Bloom Read Quote
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 Read Quote
