Quotes by : Alice McDermott

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....

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

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....

I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My....

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....

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....