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I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.


Amy Waldman

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AMY TAN We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER