“I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.” ThinkingWay Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum."” ThinkingWayFirstsPersonsI CanBookSometimesStoriesCertainGirlBoysSavedReactionsCraftsCharismaGumNarrators Author:Amy Hempel
“I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.” KnowsWayKindI CanDoneStoriesWaitingWonderfulHappenedEnvyRevisionTumbling Author:Amy Hempel
“I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.” PeopleKnowsWayWantPersonsEndsLastsNextDifferencesRoomsDogSmellMoodSettlingOver YouComplimentEfficientCorrections Book:The Dog of the Marriage: Stories Source: The Dog of the Marriage: Stories
