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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there. — Alice McDermott

Thousands more were being born today, being conceived - women with their knees raised all over the world. Mrs. — Alice McDermott

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me. — Alice McDermott

And then I saw him waving to us from behind the sky's reflection. — Alice McDermott

And then George approaching, his hand stuck to his hat and the hat bent into the onslaught. She — Alice McDermott

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures. — Alice McDermott

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me. — Alice McDermott

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile. — Alice McDermott

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers! — Alice McDermott

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world. — Alice McDermott

itself, had emerged from that shadow. — Alice McDermott

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual. — Alice McDermott

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better. — Alice McDermott

He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life. — Alice McDermott

I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me. — Alice McDermott

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference. — Alice McDermott

Mr. Persichetti was a night nurse at the state hospital, inspired — Alice McDermott

I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets. — Alice McDermott

Throughout the typing pool all the girls began to do the same. — Alice McDermott

IN THE LOBBY of her building, people fresh out of the wind were huffing and puffing like swimmers just crawled up on shore. She — Alice McDermott

Jake. From Philadelphia." Then he shook everybody's hand, like he was joining a poker game. Another Jacob. Michael turned to his brother whose eyes — Alice McDermott

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling. — Alice McDermott

For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again be loneliness in life. — Alice McDermott

I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity ... my children aren't buying it. — Alice McDermott

Her husband was asleep beside her. She could — Alice McDermott

It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is. — Alice McDermott

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write. — Alice McDermott

We are surrounded by story. — Alice McDermott

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap. — Alice McDermott

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise. — Alice McDermott

The day and time itself: late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair? — Alice McDermott

Who can know the heart of a man? — Alice McDermott

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase. — Alice McDermott

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

dull - she did not, with equal longing, wish to be a part of the whispering spinster chorus at the edge of other, more interesting lives. She — Alice McDermott

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. — Alice McDermott

Mr. Persichetti called his patients God's mistakes. He pressed — Alice McDermott

I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary. — Alice McDermott

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past. — Alice McDermott

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. — Alice McDermott

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling. — Alice McDermott

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype. — Alice McDermott

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her ... — Alice McDermott

The wind," Mary said again. "It was making everyone tear up. — Alice McDermott

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories. — Alice McDermott

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work. — Alice McDermott

I have not won far more awards than I have won. — Alice McDermott

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. — Alice McDermott

It was not the future they'd been objecting to, but the loss of the past. As if it was his fault that you could now have one without the other — Alice McDermott

He was pale as salt. Although — Alice McDermott

I was one of those kids who always wrote. — Alice McDermott

As if only he and the blind man could see what the rest of them could not. — Alice McDermott

My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well. — Alice McDermott

I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in. — Alice McDermott

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything. — Alice McDermott

A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility. — Alice McDermott

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. — Alice McDermott

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person. — Alice McDermott

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience. — Alice McDermott

I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there. — Alice McDermott

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned. — Alice McDermott

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later. — Alice McDermott