115 Quotes by Alice McDermott
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I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.
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I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.
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In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
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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.
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Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.
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Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
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I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.
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I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.
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I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there.
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