Quotes by : Alice McDermott

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried....

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical....

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

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

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....

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....