"I want hard stories, I demand them from……" — Dorothy Allison

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are… - Dorothy Allison

"I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling."

— Dorothy Allison

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