Alice McDermott Quotes

I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterMyselfFindMoreEvents

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

John Glover

TeacherResponsibilityPeopleStand

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

MyselfArtistRentPayPaintings

Would still love to do something with the 'Doctor Who' franchise at some point because I know they have a lot of fun.

Aneurin Barnard

LoveFunDoctorKnowPointBecause

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

Jeff Goodell

FoodDriveStrongerPollutionIsland

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

Suki Waterhouse

ShoesUglyLovedAlwaysEvenVery

My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

Skylar Grey

MusicGreatMomTopRadioSinger

For years, women in India were largely discouraged from participating in high-level sports - and, unless the women were wealthy, good facilities were hard to come by, anyway.

Mary Pilon

GoodWomenSportsIndiaHardYears

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev

LifeBetterFirstSeekMankind

We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.

Christopher Buckley

LiveWorldSpinningPlanetSpin

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

Alice Englert

PerformanceYouSecretsKnowNever

You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof.

Priya Sachdev

RichYouNewSameRoofAccommodate

When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.

Paula Hawkins

GirlWritingTrainNobodyPosition

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