Amy Bloom Quotes

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate.

You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.

I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

No person is just one particular emotion.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

Yes, I think I am like the sea. I appear calm on the surface, but there's a lot going on within. Many a times, I may not react to certain things, but that doesn't mean that I don't care or I don't have emotions.

Even on my most angry song, I'm also still saying, 'Thank you for helping me to learn.' I've always wanted to give voice to that complexity in our experience.