Steven Amsterdam famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 Amsterdam

#Nursing #Sight #Smell
The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.
-- Steven Amsterdam

#Wisdom #Our World #Limits
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
-- Steven Amsterdam

#Bats
A story is built on characters and reasons.
-- Steven Amsterdam

#Character #Stories #Reason
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 Amsterdam

#Book #Writing #Nursing
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
-- Steven Amsterdam

#Hands #Fiction #Demand
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 Amsterdam

#Character #Track #Challenges
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
-- Steven Amsterdam

#Writing #Looks #Rooms
I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
-- Steven Amsterdam

#Design #Conscious #Used
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 Amsterdam

#Fun #Writing #Might

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