“My stories are not against anyone; they are for the life we need.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Women. Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really girls anymore.… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Simple answers, reductionist politics, are the most prone to compromise, to saying we’re addressing the essential issue and all that other stuff can slide.… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“I had to say to her that it isn’t just men, and it isn’t just men “like that.” I had to talk to her… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Entitlement, I have told them, is a matter of feeling like we rather than they.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women who pined,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
