Quotes by : Alice McDermott

In the arc of an unremarkable life, a life whose triumphs are small and personal, whose trials are ordinary....

If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous....

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being....

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first....

It made it easier that they both believed in the simplest kind of afterlife - that my father could say....

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched....

But Mrs. Meany, see, the women went on, leaning forward, despite how her heart was broken, pulled herself....

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence....

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I....

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as....