33 Quotes by Lisa Alther

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.