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Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories. - Alice McDermott
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It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again. - Alice McDermott
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The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface. - Alice McDermott
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At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work. - Alice McDermott
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I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference. - Alice McDermott
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My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. - Alice McDermott
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I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories. - Alice McDermott
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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there. - Alice McDermott
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile. - Alice McDermott
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I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there. - Alice McDermott
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I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed. - Alice McDermott
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I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. - Alice McDermott
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I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary. - Alice McDermott
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What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead. - Alice McDermott
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In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play. - Alice McDermott
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