If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I…

- Jill Mccorkle

You will never be as smart as your subconscious.

- Jill Mccorkle

We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. Th…

- Jill Mccorkle

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into note…

- Jill Mccorkle

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

- Jill Mccorkle

There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

- Jill Mccorkle

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even …

- Jill Mccorkle

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction…

- Jill Mccorkle

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful nov…

- Jill Mccorkle