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Amy Bloom Quotes about Writing

All Amy Bloom Quotes Writing quotes

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

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.

Writing, Practice, Differences

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

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.

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.

Writing, Process, Avoiding

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

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