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I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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Life ain't the movies.
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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