Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

I've never really fit in.

I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

I think I will always feel like an outsider.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

I'm an outsider, I guess.

I guess I've lived my whole life as an outsider.

My natural state is an outsider, and no matter what group I'm in or where I am, I've always felt like I'm outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.