Dorothy Allison Quotes

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I like to talk about my life.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

Literature is about telling stories.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

I always like to tell a story.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Writing is a communication.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.