Amy Bloom Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.
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Nothing is yet in its true form.
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The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
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My grandpa sells condoms to sailors, He punctures the tips with a pin, My grandma does back-street abortions, My god how the money rolls in.
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I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.
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The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.
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I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
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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.
