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I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.
— Amy Hempel
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
The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
— Amy Hempel
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true - nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
— Amy Hempel
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
— Amy Hempel
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
— Carl Gustav Hempel
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
Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
— Amy Hempel
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
— Amy Hempel
I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed - not sex - but sex was how we got there.
— Amy Hempel
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
— Amy Hempel
Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
— Amy Hempel
It's the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.
— Amy Hempel
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
— Amy Hempel
I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.
— Amy Hempel
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
— Amy Hempel
Consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
— Amy Hempel
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
— Amy Hempel
I get rational when I panic.
— Amy Hempel
And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question than by giving them the answer.
— Amy Hempel
My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
— Amy Hempel
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. — Amy Hempel
But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose. — Amy Hempel
What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.
— Amy Hempel
An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
— Amy Hempel
I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.
— Amy Hempel
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
— Chuck Palahniuk