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Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott
American Writer
Born: Jun 27, 1953
Language Life Me Think Time You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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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