Phrase by 'Jill McCorkle'
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For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistLife , Me , Happy , Walk
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistI Am , Reality , Tragedy , Comedy
By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistYou , Freedom , Thoughts , Opportunity
I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistYou , Me , God , Angel
I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistLife , People , Moment , Death
Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistMe , Feel , I Am , Looking
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 of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistLove , Education , Think , Garden
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 with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistMe , Work , Feel , Together
Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistYou , God , Universe , Building
I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'
Author: Jill McCorkle - American NovelistYou , Long , Eyes , Walk
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