I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience. Alice McDermott believecategorizeexperience Change image and share on social
I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it. Alice McDermott buycellcharm Change image and share on social
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 convincecrusadereditorial Change image and share on social
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 cheaphangmurder Change image and share on social
I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground. Alice McDermott characterdramaticevent Change image and share on social
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 actcareergrammar Change image and share on social
I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable. Alice McDermott bookcharacterconcern share on social
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 legaloriginalpad Change image and share on social
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 equallifenight share on social
