In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth … - Amy Bloom

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Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.

Amy Bloom

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.

Deserves, Giving, Hands, Kind, People, True

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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