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Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
American Writer
Born: Apr 11, 1949
Me People Think World Writing You
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. Dorothy Allison
Change Everything Open Cracks
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. Dorothy Allison
Free Teenagers Free Verse Around Verse Walking Legs Two
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
Me World Made Three Naked Wear Rather Know Sure Go Than Coat Things Two
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
Water Slow Salt Whatever Meal Anchored Bits Pepper Simplest Know Most Couple Make How Stirring Up Cups Dish Break Break Up Little Meat Milk Flour Gravy
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. Dorothy Allison
Sister Books Horror Read Always Up Romance While Novels Growing Growing Up
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. Dorothy Allison
Class Background Contempt Am Accustomed Derive Strengths
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
Saying Me Book School Sister Books Unmarried High High School Someone Horror Given Supposed She Read Another Became Always Up Romance Happen Happening While Pregnant Should Novels Growing Growing Up Why Her Kept
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful. Dorothy Allison
Beautiful Truth You Wonderful Better Young Damn Tell Writers Well The Hardest Thing Young Writers Should Teach Your Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
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
People Writing Lost Some Bottom Bottom Line Dead Around Still Line Walking Bodies Whose Save
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain. Dorothy Allison
Character You Secret Tell Begin Want Creating Villain
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe. Dorothy Allison
Justice Writing Universe Way Only Demand Know
Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language. Dorothy Allison
Language Become Starts Way Something Idea Obsessed Know Talks Lot Person Where Happening Story Explain Then Image
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden. Dorothy Allison
Best You Science World Girl Every Meet Kid Something Like Forbidden Reader Because Science Fiction Got Where Fiction Place Fantasy Fantasy World
I can't write what I don't believe in. Dorothy Allison
Believe Write

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