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Alice Sebold Quotes

American - Writer | September 6, 1963 -

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Myself Gardening Lose Find Place

I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.

Work Morning Brain Start Wake Up Up

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Daily People Me Think Interesting

Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.

Together Words I Am Happy Process

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

Control Process You Talk Hard Your

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

Thought Weird Wrong Want Why Paint

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

Family Freedom Personality Fun More

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

Work Honesty Talking Find Calling

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.

Life People Believe Think Violence

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

Time Me Growing Up Evil Think Milk

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

Long Wanted Novelist

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Ignorance Think You Distance Way

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