“I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them,… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
“Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.” — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself. — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
