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 BloomEveryone 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 BloomBe real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
Amy BloomThe past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
Amy Bloom