Author: Dorothy Allison

Quotes

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?

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?

- Dorothy Allison

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

- Dorothy Allison

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

- Dorothy Allison

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

- Dorothy Allison

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

- Dorothy Allison

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