Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.
Dorothy AllisonThe bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
Dorothy AllisonPeople begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
Dorothy AllisonBehind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
Dorothy Allison