“ I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball… Amy Bloom
“ The German deli was run by a distant cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Great Neck Jews loved the place; they flocked to Kuch's. They said to one another, What a character he is, Otto, strictly old coun… Amy Bloom
“ 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 no… Amy Bloom
“ Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. Amy Bloom
“ Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. Amy Bloom
“ Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my… Amy Bloom
“ The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. Amy Bloom
“ In stories, when someone behaves uncharacteristically, we take it as a meaningful, even pivotal moment. If we are surprised again and again, we have to keep changing our minds, or give up and disbelie… Amy Bloom
“ She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the t… Amy Bloom
“ Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's… Amy Bloom
“ Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened. Amy Bloom
