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• ‟ At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

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• ‟ The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

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• ‟ It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.

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• ‟ Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

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• ‟ A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

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• ‟ In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

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• ‟ I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.

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• ‟ For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

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• ‟ I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.

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• ‟ I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.

  - Alice McDermott