Jill McCorkle quote: "The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later."

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take aw...
JILL MCCORKLE

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more ...
JILL MCCORKLE

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way ...
JILL MCCORKLE

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person i...
JILL MCCORKLE

One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put ...
JILL MCCORKLE

If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out ...
JILL MCCORKLE

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
SUSANNAH MCCORKLE

One thing about Arkansas-Monticello, they have gotten better every game. They have played three real...
SAM MCCORKLE

I would rather be alone and happy than be with someone who makes me miserable!
JILL

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - ...
JILL SOLOWAY

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as...
JILL SCOTT

You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' ...
JILL ABRAMSON

For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously o...
JILL SCOTT

Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective ...
JILL ABRAMSON

In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little w...
JILL LEPORE

I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love ...
JILL GREENBERG

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden C...
JILL SCOTT

I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Co...
JILL SCOTT

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandm...
JILL SCOTT

Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow&#...
JILL SCOTT

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fea...
JILL CLAYBURGH

I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm...
JILL SCOTT

We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand ca...
JILL TARTER

Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' -...
JILL SOLOWAY

The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evoluti...
JILL GREENBERG

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
JILL BENNETT

It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
JILL PETERSON

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far...
JILL TWEEDIE

The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids
JILL BENSLEY

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect moth...
JILL CHURCHILL

Elizabeth Warren has very good proposals regarding Wall Street, but she really has not been leading ...
JILL STEIN

Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a ...
JILL LEPORE

I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been fe...
JILL SOLOWAY

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in E...
JILL DANDO

Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and...
JILL SCOTT

For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.
JILL SCOTT

I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' all...
JILL SCOTT

We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we ...
JILL STEIN

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
JILL LEPORE

Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only h...
JILL TARTER

I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or de...
JILL HENNESSY

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
JILL TARTER

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
JILL SCOTT

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has ...
JILL SCOTT

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take som...
JILL SCOTT

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more...
JILL LEPORE

To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our fo...
JILL STEIN

Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and s...
JILL SCOTT

I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distri...
JILL SOLOWAY

I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thin...
JILL SCOTT

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.
JILL SCOTT

At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five c...
JILL WAGNER

Our top plank really is a Green New Deal to transform our economy to a green economy, 100 percent wi...
JILL STEIN

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would w...
JILL SCOTT

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
JILL ROBINSON

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned...
JILL LEPORE

We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis fo...
JILL TARTER

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they p...
JILL LEPORE

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children ...
JILL GREENBERG

I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the sco...
JILL STEIN

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a ...
JILL SCOTT

I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love,...
JILL SCOTT

I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary i...
JILL SCOTT

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Pri...
JILL SCOTT

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, h...
JILL SCOTT

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my car...
JILL WAGNER

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can thin...
JILL ABRAMSON

Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in ...
JILL TARTER

On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some...
JILL SOLOWAY

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated ...
JILL LEPORE

Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also lik...
JILL SOLOWAY

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It...
JILL SCOTT

Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.
JILL SHALVIS

My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spe...
JILL SOLOWAY

I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories...
JILL KARGMAN

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, ...
JILL SCOTT

I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are,...
JILL WAGNER

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.
JILL LEPORE

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers le...
JILL LEPORE

Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, elec...
JILL LEPORE

The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction...
JILL GREENBERG

When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu rea...
JILL SCOTT

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the p...
JILL ABRAMSON

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that k...
JILL SCOTT

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and...
JILL SCOTT

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all ...
JILL SCOTT

Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hil...
JILL STEIN

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.
JILL SOLOWAY

My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.
JILL SCOTT

My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing ...
JILL SCOTT

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a...
JILL LEPORE

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled ...
JILL LEPORE

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, t...
JILL LEPORE

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being differ...
JILL SCOTT

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.
JILL SOBULE

I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult ...
JILL SCOTT

I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad trac...
JILL SCOTT

I'd say putting another Clinton in the White House is only going to make that right-wing extremi...
JILL STEIN

We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a par...
JILL STEIN

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can l...
JILL SCOTT

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have re...
JILL ABRAMSON

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one
JILL CHURCHILL

We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who...
JILL STEIN

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimb...
JILL DANDO

Our behavior and attitude, good, bad or indifferent, is leaking into the earth's environmental energ...
JILL KNEER

When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,you can give up, give in, or you c...
JILL ANZINGER

Few are those whom this courage find. They keep their eyes upon the goal, and through this journey a...
JILL ANZINGER

I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is...
JILL SOLOWAY

Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work w...
JILL SCOTT

The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to...
JILL TARTER

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
JILL SCOTT

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to toda...
JILL SCOTT

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this fun...
JILL SOLOWAY

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about ...
JILL LEPORE

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
JILL LEPORE

I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many ot...
JILL SCOTT

My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much ...
JILL SCOTT

Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and pr...
JILL LEPORE

The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went ...
JILL STEIN

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes ...
JILL LEPORE

To inspire love within each other, we realize the fulfillment of our own hearts longing.
JILL ANZINGER

In the space between a breath and a heartbeat I can feel it, pulling,yearning. Limbs and hearts pass...
JILL ANZINGER

Flying high, the memory of you takes me down, but for you I don't mind falling.Your love raised me t...
JILL ANZINGER

As a stone tumbled in coarse reality, constantly worn as it is refined, adversity, it's true beauty ...
JILL ANZINGER

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.
JILL SCOTT

I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are real...
JILL STEIN

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring ...
JILL SOLOWAY

The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, i...
JILL SOLOWAY

I do eventually want to get married, but whether I end up marrying a guy or a girl, I'll still be in...
JILL RANEY

For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and La...
JILL SOLOWAY

We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken. True strength is found in picking up the...
JILL ANZINGER

Even when we grow up we call still whisper our wishes upon the wind,as a child does in innocence, br...
JILL ANZINGER

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's alway...
JILL SOLOWAY

I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a ...
JILL SOLOWAY

Reaching skyward; no longer leaning, we grow well and strong, our friendship reinforced, in the know...
JILL ANZINGER

Democracy is not what we don't want. Democracy is what we do want. It is a set of affirmative va...
JILL STEIN

Bear bile can easily and cheaply be replaced by herbs and by synthetics.
JILL ROBINSON

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence...
JILL LEPORE

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruci...
JILL TWEEDIE

Men, I feel are like wine - before buying, a real connoisseur takes a small sip, and spits them out
JILL TWEEDIE

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far...
JILL TWEEDIE

'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' as said by John Lennon.
JILL MELTON

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because th...
JILL SCOTT

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.
JILL LEPORE

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956...
JILL LEPORE

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of...
JILL SOBULE

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by h...
JILL SCOTT

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on t...
JILL ABRAMSON

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
JILL SCOTT

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create ...
JILL SOLOWAY

This is a convicted felon. This goes to a larger issue: Bob Menendez has based his entire political ...
JILL HAZELBAKER

We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in al...
JILL STEIN

Peace is an offshoot of love....it too can grow.
JILL KNEER

We took some of those individuals and conducted some special training on range-of-motion and other e...
JILL JANSSEN

It's a new gown based on one of Jackie Kennedy's favorite gowns. It was one of the only ones she eve...
JILL HENNESSY

If you massage a baby when asleep or physically ill with a fever, the benefits are not the same. As ...
JILL VYSE

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
JILL LEPORE

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless p...
JILL LEPORE

I can't believe you didn't tell me you have a phone."

"It is a penis move," said Ethan ag...
JILL MYLES

In war, there is hardly a more horrifying example of the head-long plunge into reckless militarism t...
JILL STEIN

I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, sa...
JILL SOLOWAY

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your...
JILL CLAYBURGH

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and,...
JILL SOLOWAY

For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a mani...
JILL SOLOWAY

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The ...
JILL LEPORE

Without the kindness of strangers, where would we be?
JILL JOHNSON

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.
JILL SCOTT

All of life seems like that. Once we settle into some phase or other, and become attached to it, som...
JILL JOHNSTON

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's nev...
JILL SCOTT

Terry liked him a lot. I don't know how they connected. He lived close to where we were in the Dalla...
JILL STAUTNER

He was as white as a ghost in that ambulance. It was very scary.
JILL SELTZER

If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me fee...
JILL SCOTT

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what t...
JILL LEPORE

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questi...
JILL SCOTT

Trump says very scary things - deporting immigrants, massive militarism and, you know, ignoring the ...
JILL STEIN

This is sort of typical Hillary Clinton: to do things that are not legal, to say that they are, and ...
JILL STEIN

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. ...
JILL SCOTT

Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because h...
JILL SCOTT

We try to keep tabs on our intellectual property, but sometimes it's difficult to make sure that inf...
JILL STELFOX

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long...
JILL TARTER

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had m...
JILL SCOTT

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
JILL RUCKELSHAUS

We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. People remember the Dean scream that was used a...
JILL STEIN

Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller&#...
JILL DAVIS

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the seren...
JILL ABRAMSON

My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; bu...
JILL ABRAMSON

We're appalled. This city is built on tourism, and we're their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON

We're appalled,
JILL JOHNSON

Were appalled. This city is built on tourism, and were their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON

We’re appalled, ... This city is built on tourism, and we’re their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON

Hey,” Shayne said through the door. “You going to stay in there all night, because we’re getti...
JILL SHALVIS

There was a group of fans who wanted autographs, and several women who managed to write their phone ...
JILL SHALVIS

Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.
JILL SHALVIS

I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.”
This was met with silence.
“Ar...
JILL SHALVIS

Who’s there?”
“The scratcher of your itch,” he said.
She opened the door a crack a...
JILL SHALVIS

Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-"
“No.” She held on when he would have pulled aw...
JILL SHALVIS

If I looked like him,” Tara said. “I’d want to have sex with myself. All the time.
JILL SHALVIS

Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

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Jill McCorkle

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

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