My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me.

Dorothy Allison
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  1. Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

  2. Write to your fear.

  3. Why write stories? To join the conversation.

  4. I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

  5. Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from everyone I read -- something most important what I should not try to write.

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