Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference … - Amy Bloom

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So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

Amy Bloom

Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

Differences, Habit, Listen, Practice, Tell, Writing

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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

Guilty, Netting, Punished, Safe, Trim, World

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Embarrassingly, Perseverance, Team, Think, Thinking, Toothless

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Kindness, People, Shyness, Take

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Avoiding, Process, Procrastinating, Writing

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Depth, Experience, Lasts, Poem, Stories, Surprise