What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I might not have ever had the courage to write those stories without that experience, that training ground in how to look… — 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
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 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
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
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose… — 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
“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I… — 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
“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Every time I sit down to write, I have a great fear that anything I write will reveal me as the monster… — 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
“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
“Every writing course I ever heard of said the same thing. Take one story, follow it through, beginning, middle, end. I don’t… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone… — 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
“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
“As I was finishing the copyediting of Bastard, I found myself thinking about all I had read when Kate Millett published Flying:… — 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
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker… — 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
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
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to… — 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
