As I said to my students at Yale the other day, there were four major problems with the stories they just turned in. One was "I'm Smart, You're Dumb." The other was "I'm Smart, My Characters are Dumb." Another one was "I Have a Secret," in which the author tries very hard not to tell the reader what's actually going on. The final one was that complex emotions can only be expressed through complex and convoluted sentences.”
THE WRITER'S CHRONICLE, March 2002: from an interview with Amy Bloom by Sarah Ann Johnson
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