Amy Bloom Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Practice, Differences

• There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

  Amy Bloom

  Liars, Writing, Good Writers

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

• 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 only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.

  Amy Bloom

  Lying, Grief, Writing

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

• My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Process, Avoiding

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction”, p.225, Random House

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