Amy Bloom Quotes
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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.
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I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.
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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.
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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
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I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.
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My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
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The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.
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My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.