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Alice McDermott Quotes: Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.
         

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.


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Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.



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We are surrounded by story.



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A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.



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Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.



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Heightism is the last unchecked prejudice.



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The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.



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When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.



I'd like to be better at short, snappy answers.

I'd like to be better at short, snappy answers.



We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!



I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.





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I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.



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