Jill McCorkle
Jill McCorkle
Jill Collins McCorkleis an American short story writer and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 July 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.
Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.
For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.
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It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.
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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
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I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.
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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
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I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'
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By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.
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By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
I like to think I put some of myself in every character.
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If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?
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Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.