Alice McDermott Quotes

I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1953

Topics

WorkTimeWritingFinishingWhatever

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Jim Henson

TheatreDesignActingStageLittle

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

John Cusack

LifeWalkPeopleMy LifeTalking

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

Robert H. Schuller

TrustPeopleBelieveHelpYouTry

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

Jeff Lynne

MusicDoingYearsStillEvenAfter

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

Sophocles

MenSayingTrueEnemiesGiftsAmong

I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.

Sonja Henie

DoingWantDancingSkatesFred

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

Tony Gilroy

PeopleTalkNeverComingBehind

We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has access to quality, affordable child care.

Tom Perez

QualitySupportChildSickCare

A true initiation never ends.

Robert Anton Wilson

TrueNeverInitiationEnds

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

Robin Wright

BeautyTodayMoneyAmericanOut

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

Maryanne Wolf

ChildrenReadingDeepLearnMedia

We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter.

Mary Pilon

FitnessYearSeemGetEachSpend

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