Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

- Steven Amsterdam

A story is built on characters and reasons.

- Steven Amsterdam

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

- Steven Amsterdam

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

- Steven Amsterdam

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 t…

- Steven Amsterdam

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 pla…

- Steven Amsterdam

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…

- Steven Amsterdam

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

- Steven Amsterdam

Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucia…

- Steven Amsterdam