Amy Bloom Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Amy Bloom quotes and sayings page 2 (writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 60 we have.
“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.”
“My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.”
“My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.”
“Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.”
“I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.”
“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.”
“I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.”
“I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.”
“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.”
“I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.”
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