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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Born Brooklyn Lived Never I Was Born

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I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Fondness Great Liars Stories

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My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Both Brooklyn Catholics Irish Parents Raised Were

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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

Topics: Always Difference First Make Much Person Students Telling Third Worry

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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

Topics: Ask Beginning Every Graduate Help Me Read Semester Should Something Students Understand Whether Will Work

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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

Topics: Even Fiction Frustrated Inside Leaves Look Me Memoir Need Now Out Outside Poet Rather Somewhat Surface Than Thing Think Uncover I Think

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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

Topics: Afraid Again Books Faulkner Forced High High School High School Students Like Me Putting Ready School Students Then Toes Water Worries

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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

Topics: Come Dark Feel Like Nothing Novels Out Publishing Rather Short Short Story Shouting Sometimes Stories Story Tend Than Then Think Why Words Write Your

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Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Anything Anything Else Else Equal Everything Gives Instead Least Life Night Odd Pleasure Read Say Sleep Time Write Writing You

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My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Always Consider Favorite Masterpiece My Own Novel Own Sentimental Suppose Well Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 27th, 1953

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