Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther

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"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."

— Lisa Alther

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

— Lisa Alther

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

— Lisa Alther

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

— Lisa Alther

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

— Lisa Alther