Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott
Alice McDermottis an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 June 1953
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
fondness great
I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.
assumes cliche fiction runs stumbling typical writer
Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
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A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.