Will Allison
Will Allison
Will Allison is an American novelist and editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Long Drive Homeand What You Have Left...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 October 1968
CountryUnited States of America
children kids giving
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
sleep tired alternatives
You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...
return wells defined
In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
suffering withdrawal symptoms
Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
writing people body
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
book survival dying
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
wall pain fall
For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all.
challenges important equal
It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
fun people fiction
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
jobs want able
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
character creating secret
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
memories terrible
I have a terrible memory.
thinking world
And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
love-you writing character
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.