Because Quote by Jill McCorkle

“She tried to teach her children to be positive--to dream but to also do it with their feet on the ground. If you let…

— Jill McCorkle

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear…

— Jill McCorkle

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and…

— Jill McCorkle

“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…

— Jill McCorkle

“...he was convinced that if he claimed all the parts he really loved he would be able to make peace with everything else.”

— Jill McCorkle

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place…

— Jill McCorkle

“When she doesn’t want to think about something sad or hurtful, she does what she instructed her own children and those she taught to…

— Jill McCorkle

The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there…

— Jill McCorkle

“It was 1965 and life seemed easier. Her parents were alive and so was her brother, her bones were hard and strong and her…

— Jill McCorkle

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on…

— Jill McCorkle

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

— Jill McCorkle

I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept…

— Jill McCorkle