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

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

Ali Liebegott
Book, Class, World

It's not like I hate gay people.

Ali Liebegott
Hate, Gay, People
Ali Liebegott (2007). “The IHOP Papers”, p.2, Carroll & Graf

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.”

Ali Liebegott
Hate, Gay, People
Ali Liebegott (2007). “The IHOP Papers”, p.2, Carroll & Graf

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.

Ali Liebegott
Writing, Years, Twenties
"Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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

Ali Liebegott
Writing, Starting Over, Feels
"Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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.

Ali Liebegott
Jobs, Writing, Giving
"Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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

Ali Liebegott
Book, Firsts, Sometimes
"Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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.

Ali Liebegott
Book, Reading, Gay
"Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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.

Ali Liebegott
Grateful, Poet, Filmmaker
"Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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