Amy Bloom Quotes

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.

It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.

Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

Of everything with 'The Room' that came out of it, I feel like being able to write, and tap back into that passion, was something I'm really thankful for.

Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then I'll feel successful.

Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is a magical moment. I never lost that buzz.

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.