Latest Jane Alison Quotes from Interviews

• You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

  Jane Alison

  Sides, Sometimes, Painful

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

  Jane Alison

  Writing, Letters, Underestimate

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

  Jane Alison

  Writing, Feelings, Able

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

  Jane Alison

  Thinking, Want, Able

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

  Jane Alison

  Thinking, World, Too Much

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.

  Jane Alison

  Hug, Way, Sometimes

  Source: www.wbur.org

• That's what perfect means. You're finished.

  Jane Alison

  Mean, Perfect, Finished

  Source: therumpus.net

• You have to want something or you're finished.

  Jane Alison

  Want Something, Want, Finished

  Source: therumpus.net

• The state of love is this constant flux back and forth between who's saving and who's rescuing, who's wanting and not wanting, who's needing and who isn't. It's always going back and forth between two people who are actually attached.

  Jane Alison

  Love Is, Two, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.

  Jane Alison

  Want, Wells, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

• I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

  Jane Alison

  Ocean, Moving, Flying

  Source: therumpus.net

• My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.

  Jane Alison

  Memories, Home, California

  Source: therumpus.net

• I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.

  Jane Alison

  Thinking, America, Australia

  Source: therumpus.net

• When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

  Jane Alison

  Writing, Doe, Filters

  Source: therumpus.net

• There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

  Jane Alison

  Ocean, Water, Pool

  Source: therumpus.net

• Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

  Jane Alison

  Desire, Female, Phases

  Source: therumpus.net

• Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.

  Jane Alison

  Reality, Sick, Plot

  Source: therumpus.net

• Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

  Jane Alison

  Teaching, Writing, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

• There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.

  Jane Alison

  College, Men, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

• That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.

  Jane Alison

  Water, Trying, Faces

  Source: therumpus.net

• In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

  Jane Alison

  Real, Order, Romance

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

  Jane Alison

  Thinking, Imagination, Fantasy

  Source: therumpus.net

• I can't say that fantasy instead of the 3D world is fine or good, but I know in my own life I have certain people I've kind of fixated upon to the point of pure fantasy. Then there's such a dilemma when here they are, and they're getting ever less and less like the way the fantasy has them.

  Jane Alison

  People, World, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

• When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

  Jane Alison

  Waiting, Cigarette, Bus

  Source: therumpus.net

• I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."

  Jane Alison

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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