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I have not won far more awards than I have won.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Awards Far More Than Won

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I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Anyone Interested Tweet Tweets Want Who Would

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I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Drawn Many Memoir Risk Run

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I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Any Back Call Cause Changed Forward Handy Life Look Make Moments Myself Pause Rituals Sort Think Those Understand Us Use Wakes Weddings I Think I Can

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I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Able Anywhere Being Going Having Just Legal Like Novel Original Pad Pen Romance Things Those Two World Write

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I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: About Cheap Hang Plot Think Violence Want Write I Think

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I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Books Finishing Least Other Simultaneously Spend Takes Tend Then Time Two Whatever Work Writing

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You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Being Every Every Time Feeling Human Human Being List Name Out Prize Time You Your

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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Appears Call Church Experience Formed Language Lots Much Once Oral Prayers Sense Song Spirit Third Time Tradition Twice Which You

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In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Act Being Belief Come Created Fiction Kinds Matters Play Reading Where World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 27th, 1953

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