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Alice McDermott
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“Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.”
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“Enough is as good as a feast.”
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“The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.”
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“When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.”
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“A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.”
Alice McDermott, U.S. writer, educator
(1953)