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Dorothy Allison

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

— Dorothy Allison sex

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

— Dorothy Allison life

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

— Dorothy Allison change

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

— Dorothy Allison life

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

— Dorothy Allison world

Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

— Dorothy Allison memory

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

— Dorothy Allison women

I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.

— Dorothy Allison people

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

— Dorothy Allison time

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

— Dorothy Allison love

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

— Dorothy Allison living

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

— Dorothy Allison challenges

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

— Dorothy Allison age

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

— Dorothy Allison story

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

— Dorothy Allison man

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.

— Dorothy Allison love

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.

— Dorothy Allison romance

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

— Dorothy Allison character

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

— Dorothy Allison success

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

— Dorothy Allison truth

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.

— Dorothy Allison love

I can't write what I don't believe in.

— Dorothy Allison believe

I have a terrible memory.

— Dorothy Allison memory

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

— Dorothy Allison women

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

— Dorothy Allison writing

... survival is the least of my desires.

— Dorothy Allison desire

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