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Why write stories? To join the conversation.Dorothy Allison
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.Dorothy Allison
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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.Dorothy Allison
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I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and helplessness, to make it visible and real in a tangible way, in the way other people's seemed real -- the lives I had read about in books.Dorothy Allison
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Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.Dorothy Allison
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Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.Dorothy Allison