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
thinking movement ifs
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
mother pieces stolen
Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.
friendly balance tongue
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant
girl mean writing
Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.
nice writing people
I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.
healing cracks allison
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
eye blessing long
Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.
writing libertarian boring
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
survival desire
... survival is the least of my desires.
truth lying church
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.
writing order giving
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
lying fiction telling-the-truth
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
laughing mama wells
Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.
meaningful pain opening-up
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.