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 think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.
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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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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
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The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.
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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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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 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.