I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing. — Jane Alison Able Copy Share Image
In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy. — Jane Alison Fantasy Copy Share Image
When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette. — Jane Alison Bus Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have… — Jane Alison Figures Copy Share Image
My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not… — Jane Alison California Copy Share Image
I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I… — Jane Alison Ifs Copy Share Image
I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it. — Jane Alison Able Copy Share Image
“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.” — Jane Alison Memoirs Copy Share Image
When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of… — Jane Alison Courses Copy Share Image
I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I… — Jane Alison America Copy Share Image
The state of love is this constant flux back and forth between who's saving and who's rescuing, who's wanting and not wanting,… — Jane Alison Back and forth Copy Share Image
I can't say that fantasy instead of the 3D world is fine or good, but I know in my own life I… — Jane Alison Certain Copy Share Image
“Making a self can be like writing, and now I think writing can be like home: a space you make that you… — Jane Alison Every day Copy Share Image
“When you're sixteen or seventeen meaning can be anywhere. A drop of rain running down the window is a symbol, a song… — Jane Alison Poetry Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live. — Jane Alison Knows Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world. — Jane Alison Expect Copy Share Image
You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful. — Jane Alison Doing Copy Share Image
I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination. — Jane Alison Fantasy Copy Share Image
Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be. — Jane Alison Education Copy Share Image
I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around. — Jane Alison Messing Copy Share Image
Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it… — Jane Alison Body Copy Share Image
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality… — Jane Alison Conventional Copy Share Image
There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools. — Jane Alison Ocean Copy Share Image
That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is… — Jane Alison Disappear Copy Share Image
There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one… — Jane Alison Association Copy Share Image
