Alice McDermott Quotes
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What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
Alice McDermott
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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
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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