Quotes by Alice Sebold

About Alice Sebold:

Alice Sebold is an American writer. She has published three books: Lucky (1999), The Lovely Bones (2002), and The Almost Moon (2007).
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I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.

Alice Sebold

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

Alice Sebold

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

Alice Sebold

I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.

Alice Sebold

Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get any...

Alice Sebold

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

Alice Sebold

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specifi...

Alice Sebold

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

Alice Sebold

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

Alice Sebold

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Alice Sebold

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

Alice Sebold

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

Alice Sebold

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Alice Sebold

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.

Alice Sebold

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

Alice Sebold

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Alice Sebold

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

Alice Sebold

For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him – the human defect – and kept away.

Alice Sebold

Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched as my mother bought out the girl's whole stock. Nurse Eliot, who remembered my mother from eight years ago volunte...

Alice Sebold

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

Alice Sebold

Author Bio

  • NameAlice Sebold
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornSeptember 6, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksThe Lovely Bones; The Almost Moon; Lucky