American - Writer | April 11, 1949 -
It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
Dorothy Allison
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If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?
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If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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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.
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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.
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And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
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I can't write what I don't believe in.
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