"you tell a story, you open a door. people walk through and find their own lives"

Dorothy Allison

Hull, Dana. "Dorothy Allison, Rebel Belle; A 'Southern Writer' Sheds Labels and Finds Her Own Voice." The Washington Post. 24 November 2014. Print.

Love the Details

“All bad writers are in love with the epic.”
--Ernest Hemingway

Avoid Absolutes (and yet...)

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
-- Anais Nin

"He took a long time to believe them because he wanted to believe them."

Wise Blood, Flannery O'connor