33 Quotes by Lisa Alther

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.

The strength you’ve insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

The French would eat anything that couldn’t outrun them.

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.

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.

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.