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Amy Hempel Quotes

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily Picture Quote #1

I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her Picture Quote #1

I’ve always known when I start a story what the last line is. It’s always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don’t know how it’s going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever Picture Quote #1

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story Picture Quote #1

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me Picture Quote #1

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again! Picture Quote #1

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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive Picture Quote #1

Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women’s cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay Picture Quote #1

I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life Picture Quote #1

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn’t mean you’re not still underwater Picture Quote #1

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table Picture Quote #1

I thought, my love is so good, why isn’t it calling the same thing back Picture Quote #1

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It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it Picture Quote #1

If it’s true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive Picture Quote #1

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That’s the kind of thing that turns my heart right over Picture Quote #1

I meet a person, and in my mind I’m saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark Picture Quote #1

When my mother died, my father’s early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached Picture Quote #1

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I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily (Amy Hempel Quotes) I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her (Amy Hempel Quotes) I’ve always known when I start a story what the last line is. It’s always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don’t know how it’s going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever (Amy Hempel Quotes) I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story (Amy Hempel Quotes) The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me (Amy Hempel Quotes) I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again! (Amy Hempel Quotes) Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive (Amy Hempel Quotes) Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women’s cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay (Amy Hempel Quotes) I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life (Amy Hempel Quotes) Just because you have stopped sinking doesn’t mean you’re not still underwater (Amy Hempel Quotes) I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table (Amy Hempel Quotes) I thought, my love is so good, why isn’t it calling the same thing back (Amy Hempel Quotes) It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it (Amy Hempel Quotes) If it’s true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive (Amy Hempel Quotes) Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That’s the kind of thing that turns my heart right over (Amy Hempel Quotes) I meet a person, and in my mind I’m saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark (Amy Hempel Quotes) When my mother died, my father’s early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached (Amy Hempel Quotes)

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