Steven Amsterdam quotes
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“Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.”
-- Steven AmsterdamSource : "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.
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“The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.”
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“Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.”
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“A story is built on characters and reasons.”
-- Steven AmsterdamSource : "All the Black Swans" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2011.
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“Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?”
-- Steven AmsterdamSource : "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.
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“Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.”
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“I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].”
-- Steven AmsterdamSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.”
-- Steven AmsterdamSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.”
-- Steven AmsterdamSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.”
-- Steven AmsterdamSource : Source: therumpus.net
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