Ali Liebegott Quotes

#1. In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

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#2. I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

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#3. There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

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#4. I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

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#5. I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

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#6. For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

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#7. When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

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#8. Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate gay people."

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#9. I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.

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#10. It's not like I hate gay people.

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#11. Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

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#12. As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

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#13. Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

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#14. I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

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