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Alice McDermott Quotes

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

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience Literature You Find Go

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.

Megan McCafferty

Age Myself Think Find Wonder Go

I think it's pretty well established that great schools are predicated on great faculty. That is not a Wisconsin market; that is a worldwide market.

Great Think Pretty Well Market

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Yourself School Thought Help You

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Respect Intelligence Go Why Try Lot

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Faith Christian Historical Wide

JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing.

Always Playing Role Dreamt JFK

I just love getting dirty.

Love Dirty Just Getting

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Children Art Experience People Never

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

Great War People Speak Important

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

Man Three Way Square Against Use

I'm very close with my fans. I'm very involved with my fans, so I've seen the influence that I can have on a child or on the mind of somebody.

Child Mind Influence I Can Fans

I particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there.

Love Experiences Israel Fantastic

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