Best Dorothy Allison Quotes
- I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain. Begin
- I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make… Able
- It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect. Fiction
- It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to. Challenges
- Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. Free
- The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still… Bodies
- Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe. Demand
- Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because… Best
- Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored… Anchored
- Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which… All
- The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on… Begin
- My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had… All
- Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know… Any
- Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got… All
- Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she… Felt
- That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified. Ashamed
- Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey.… Bad
- ... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… All
- I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your… All
- Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself… Afraid
- I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into… Blockades
- I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats. All
- fiction is the great lie that tells the truth Fiction
- The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create… Belief
- Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure From