Steven Amsterdam Quotes

• Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

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  Nursing, Sight, Smell

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

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  Wisdom, Our World, Limits

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• Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

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  Bats, Has Beens, Publishers

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• I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].

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  Character, Track, Challenges

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• A story is built on characters and reasons.

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  Character, Stories, Reason

  "All the Black Swans" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

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  Book, Writing, Nursing

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

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  Hands, Attention, Fiction

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• I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

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  Writing, Looks, Rooms

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• I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

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  Design, Conscious, Used

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• I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.

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  Fun, Writing, Might

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