I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me. Amy Hempel More Quotes by Amy Hempel More Quotes From Amy Hempel I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. Amy Hempel levels stories people 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 sorrow mother father 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. Amy Hempel smell differences dog 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 cartoon laughing thinking I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry. Amy Hempel veterinarian chemistry wanted 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 news-stories writing ideas The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else. Amy Hempel one-step-at-a-time gone loss
