Dorothy Allison Quotes
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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.
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I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
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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.
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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.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
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Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.
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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.
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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.