Jill McCorkle
Jill McCorkle
Jill Collins McCorkleis an American short story writer and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 July 1958
CountryUnited States of America
along note sit time
By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
notebook growing-up tree
I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.
crucial people plenty time
I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.
ears novels possibly
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.'
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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
build denying freedom ideas limiting negatives opportunity speech
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.
fiction fine interested line pushing
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.
writing building dollhouses
Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
garden thinking choices
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.
real writing together
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.
survival-skills skills survival
Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
marriage party mean
I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.
powerful safe neighbor
Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.
choices chance
There is a choice to make, a chance to take.