Amy Bloom Quotes

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them.

Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different.

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

The same facts impress us differently.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.