276 Quotes by Alice Sebold

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap,

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we have with our parents, you wish them the best and you wish them the worst more than anybody else in the world. I think everyone has had a moment in their life where they wished a parent ill, and I think it's perhaps a very romantic idea that that doesn't happen.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.