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" I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry. "
Amy Hempel
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" I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her. "
Amy Hempel
Her
Age
She
" Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. "
Amy Hempel
Journalism
You
Want
" I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people. "
Amy Hempel
Story
Telling
Whatever
" I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it. "
Amy Hempel
Wait
You
Know
" 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
Story
Write
You
" 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
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