Quotes by : Dorothy Allison

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

I made my life, the same way it looks like you're gonna make yours—out of pride and stubbornness and....

What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren't....

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I....

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.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces....

Write to your fear.

It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little....