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Famous Jane Alison Quotes
“When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.”
“In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.”
“Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.”
“There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.”
“I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.”
“I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.”
“Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.”
“I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.”
“I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.”
“You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.”