Dorothy Allison Stories Quotations

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world

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