Amy Bloom
Novelist and short-story writer
1953-06-28
Amy Bloom is an American novelist and short-story writer known for literary fiction and nonfiction.
Quotes by Amy Bloom
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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.
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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
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Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.
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Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
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Love at first sight is easy to understand
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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
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Love at first sight is easy to understand
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Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.
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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.
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Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
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There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
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My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.
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My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food.
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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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My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.
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