Jill McCorkle Quotes

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes…
• If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who…
• You will never be as smart as your subconscious.
• The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is…
• Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
• The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the…
• I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as…
• I like to think I put some of myself in every character.
• For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
• I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering…
• Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a…
• Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have…
• I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or…
• Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
• My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

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