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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
Amy Bloom
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Amy Bloom
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 18
Film Producer
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Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...
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The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.
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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.
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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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