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Top 25 Amy Waldman Quotes (2025 Update)

Amy Waldman Quote: “My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It’s strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.”

1. “My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It’s strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source – it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there’s often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.”

2. “As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source – it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there’s often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren’t so different.”

3. “As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren’t so different.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.”

4. “In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “Eden, paradise – all the best gardens are imaginary.”

5. “Eden, paradise – all the best gardens are imaginary.”

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Amy Waldman Quote: “In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.”

6. “In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.”

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Amy Waldman Quote: “The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes.”

7. “The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government’s approach to Islamic terrorism.”

8. “The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government’s approach to Islamic terrorism.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who’s been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It’s somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.”

9. “In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who’s been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It’s somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air.”

10. “In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.”

11. “Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.”

12. “Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.”

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Amy Waldman Quote: “Jealousy clings to love’s underside like bats to a bridge.”

13. “Jealousy clings to love’s underside like bats to a bridge.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.”

14. “Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right – how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.”

15. “History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right – how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “There were in life rarely, if ever, “right” decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.”

16. “There were in life rarely, if ever, “right” decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.”

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Amy Waldman Quote: “Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.”

17. “Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.”

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Amy Waldman Quote: “Sorrow can be a bully.”

18. “Sorrow can be a bully.”

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Amy Waldman Quote: “While researching ‘The Submission,’ I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.”

19. “While researching ‘The Submission,’ I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.”

— Amy Waldman

20. “I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless – until they aren’t.”

21. “Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless – until they aren’t.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.”

22. “My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words – usually lousy ones – for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.”

23. “Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words – usually lousy ones – for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “Debbie’s facts coincided miraculously with her opinions.”

24. “Debbie’s facts coincided miraculously with her opinions.”

— Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman Quote: “And as journalists we look for differences – differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We’re very sensitized to difference, but it’s much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.”

25. “And as journalists we look for differences – differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We’re very sensitized to difference, but it’s much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.”

— Amy Waldman

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