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People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back. — Dorothy Allison

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. — Dorothy Allison

I have a terrible memory. — Dorothy Allison

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) — Dorothy Allison

He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a man up. — Dorothy Allison

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

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. — Dorothy Allison

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. — Dorothy Allison

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. — Dorothy Allison

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't. (145) — Dorothy Allison

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt. — Dorothy Allison

he had never imagined she would leave him for messing around with girls he would never have married and didn't love. — Dorothy Allison

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you. — Dorothy Allison

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. — Dorothy Allison

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand. — Dorothy Allison

I can't write what I don't believe in. — Dorothy Allison

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. — Dorothy Allison

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe. — Dorothy Allison

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. — Dorothy Allison

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats. — Dorothy Allison

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means. — Dorothy Allison

Why write stories? To join the conversation. — Dorothy Allison

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me. — Dorothy Allison

You are trying to put something on the page worth what it costs you to put it on the page. — Dorothy Allison

I am not here to make anyone happy. What I am here for is to claim my life, my mama's death, our losses and our triumphs, to name them for myself. — Dorothy Allison

My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying. — Dorothy Allison

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified. — Dorothy Allison

I claimed myself and remade my life. — Dorothy Allison

Stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world. — Dorothy Allison

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me ... (109) — Dorothy Allison

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been. — Dorothy Allison

Write to your fear. — Dorothy Allison

We wanted a feminist revolution. I wanted it like a lover. I wanted it like justice. — Dorothy Allison

Once I was born, her hopes had turned and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun — Dorothy Allison

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing. — Dorothy Allison

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story. — Dorothy Allison

Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives. — Dorothy Allison

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else. — Dorothy Allison

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect. — Dorothy Allison

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. — Dorothy Allison

No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust exterior she was all butter grief and hunger. — Dorothy Allison

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to. — Dorothy Allison

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. — Dorothy Allison

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing. — Dorothy Allison

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. — Dorothy Allison

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. — Dorothy Allison

Life ain't the movies. — Dorothy Allison

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. — Dorothy Allison

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain. — Dorothy Allison

She got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth — Dorothy Allison

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations. — Dorothy Allison

Survival is the least of my desires. — Dorothy Allison