It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.
The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself. - Lisa Alther
The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.
- Lisa Alther
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. - Lisa Alther
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. - Lisa Alther
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. - Lisa Alther
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright. - Lisa Alther
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables. - Lisa Alther
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air. - Lisa Alther
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart. - Lisa Alther
The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it. - Lisa Alther
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
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