Dorothy Allison Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Magic, Naked

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.143, Open Road Media

• Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Writing, Fiction

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.117, Open Road Media

• Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Justice, Demand

  "'Cavedweller' offers return of a prodigal daughter" by K.C. Wildmoon, www.cnn.com.

• If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

  Dorothy Allison

  Art, Writing, Responsibility

  "A Conversation with Dorothy Allison". Interview with Renée Olander, www.awpwriter.org. October 2002.

• Why write stories? To join the conversation.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Stories, Conversation

  Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.13, Penguin

• It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Ideas, People

• People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Order, People

• What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Libertarian, Boring

• I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

  Dorothy Allison

  Love You, Character, Responsibility

• I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

  Dorothy Allison

  Nice, Writing, People

  "kin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature". Book by Dorothy Allison, 1994.

• I can't write what I don't believe in.

  Dorothy Allison

  Believe, Writing, Don't Believe

  Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Mean, Writing

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.36, Penguin

• The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, People, Body

  Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Writing, Years

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.145, Open Road Media

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