Alice Sebold Quotes & Sayings

“I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.”

“I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.”

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

“I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.”

“I have a lot to be grateful for.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.”

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

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