Amy Bloom Quotes

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

My novels are all ideas.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.

I love all the characters I write.

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.

I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.