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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
Tags: journalism, next, you, me

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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
— Amy Hempel
Tags: hit, up, organic, chemistry
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
Tags: doing, journalism, great, you
There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.
— Amy Hempel
Tags: writing
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