Quotes by : Dorothy Allison

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

Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort....

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....

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....

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

Women.Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really....

Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for....