Quotes by : Dorothy Allison

I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape....

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and....

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing....

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me....

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Write to your fear.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know....