“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“and I saw all over again what comes of pretending that terrible things do not happen. Shame comes with denial. Fear fattens… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Maybe not for anyone else, but for me, the kind of person I am, writing meant an attempt to sneak up on… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I’m a storyteller. I’ll work to make you believe me. Throw in some real stuff, change a few details, add the certainty… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“We all nourish truth with our tongues not in sour-batter words that never take shape nor line-driven stories bent to skirt the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life in pursuit of the remade world... I believe in truth. I believe in truth denied any use… — 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
