All Lisa Alther Quotes
- Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. Air
- What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. Contents
- Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. All
- Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it. Arrived
- 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 to… All
- Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. Began
- 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 was… Anything Published
- 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 pray… Children
- The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air. Air
- We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things. All
- If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables. Adulthood
- 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 will… Along
- "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 bear… Attitude