Amy Bloom Quotes

I've blundered my way through life.

I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all.

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

It's tough never being right.

Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know?

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I don't get everything right the first time.

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

Writing is inherently scary.

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.