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Alice McDermott
American
Writer
Born:
Jun 27
,
1953
Language
Life
Me
Think
Time
You
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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
Alice McDermott
Time
You
Experience
Song
Language
Church
Sense
Once
Spirit
Call
Tradition
Prayers
Lots
Repetitions
Oral
Which
Formed
Much
Appears
Twice
Third
In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
Alice McDermott
World
Reading
Matters
Kinds
Come
Being
Where
Fiction
Created
Act
Belief
Play
Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.
Alice McDermott
You
Before
Whatever
Way
Adjective
Some
Russian
Writer
Put
Limiting
Feminist
Any
Going
Whether
Noun
Jewish
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
Alice McDermott
You
Experience
Find
Shared
Categorized
Always
Go
Human
Literature
Human Experience
Believed
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
Alice McDermott
Prayer
Language
Church
First
Ways
Poetry
Catholic
Catholic Church
Gospels
Liturgy
Many
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