Lisa Alther

Quotes

• “I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes...”
• “I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published so I guess outside rein...”
• “That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people w...”
• “Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of somethin...”
• “Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.”