The relationship with the words someone uses is mo... -Alice Sebold

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.

Alice Sebold , Writer
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About Author

Alice Sebold is an American writer known for her novel "The Lovely Bones," which became a bestselling sensation. Her works often explore themes of trauma, healing, and the human capacity for resilience. Sebold's writing delves into the complexities of human emotions and experiences.

Alice Sebold Quotes to Explore

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself....
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...
I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your cloth...
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, v...
I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew....
We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent....
I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality....
I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we sep...
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something....
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M....

Relationship Quotes to Explore

The more you're real with people, and the more you let people help you, the more they get to understand how you operate as an entrepreneur. The strong...
I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of...
I'm definitely one of those chicks who want to be in a relationship. I need somebody who can make me laugh and entertain me....
Bad Bunny and I aren't brothers, but we have a good relationship. We compete. We'll compete until the day we die, because he says he's the best, and I...
The strategy we must follow is to defend the special relationship between Great Britain and Europe and, more specifically, between Europe and France....
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them....
Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up....
The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human f...
People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can exist. There isn't any judgment. They don't necessarily ...
I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I...