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The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Catholic Catholic Church Church First Gospels Language Many Poetry Prayer Ways

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After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: After Almost Claim Concerns Get Kind Long Long Run Much Out Point Refrain Run Say Set Thirty Where Years You

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In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Act Anyone Being Career Could Did Grammar Grammar School Hart Magical Me Moss Most Never Play Playwright Read Romantic School Struck Write

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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.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Anybody Anything Convince Editorial Fiction Novelist Writer Writing

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I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Authenticity Choice Feel Just Kind Lose Love Manipulate Necessarily Plot Story Writer I Love I Feel

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I was one of those kids who always wrote.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Always Kids Those Who Wrote

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I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Asked Brothers Complete Dinner Dinner Table Get Had Me Nobody Often Older Older Brothers Say Saying Sentences Table Two Way Writing Youngest

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I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Background Class Complain Day Early Ethic Every Every Day Get Go Had Irish Job Learned Middle Middle Class Might Nobody Protestant Quite Real Real Job Really Same Show Special Still Think Treat Up Were Which Who Work Work Ethic You

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No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Baby Going Great Looks Must Need Novelist Now Really Says Something Start Us Writing You

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Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Blind Inevitable Loss Naive Otherwise Think You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 27th, 1953

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