A Quote by Amy Bloom

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

Amy Bloom

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Alive Becomes Cake Characters Good How Just Just Be Matter Me Sentences

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Amy Bloom
American - Writer
Born: 1953

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

Langston Hughes

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

Adam Riess

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

Bethenny Frankel

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.

Willie Geist

My life is full, and I love it. Acting is the frosting on the cake for me.

Alex Meneses

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

Morgan Neville

I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the galaxy.Alive in the stars.Alive in the sky.Alive in the sea.Alive in the palm trees.Alive in feathers.Alive in birds.Alive in the mountains.Alive in the coyotes.Alive in books.Alive in sound.Alive in mom.Alive in dad.Alive in Bobby.Alive in me.Alive in soil.Alive in branches.Alive in fossils.Alive in tongues.Alive in eyes.Alive in cries.Alive in bodies.Alive in past, present and future. Alive forever.

Kelly Easton

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Tom Robbins

Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

Macy Gray

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Ray Charles

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

Tabitha King

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

Timothy B. Schmit

To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get.