Writer Quotes by Marge Piercy

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

— Marge Piercy

The real writer is one who really writes.

— Marge Piercy

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was…

— Marge Piercy

The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on…

— Marge Piercy

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

— Marge Piercy

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

— Marge Piercy

I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write…

— Marge Piercy

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its…

— Marge Piercy

“Writing implies faith in someone listening,/ different in content but not need/ from the child who cries in the night./ Making is…

— Marge Piercy

“From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything…

— Marge Piercy

Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive…

— Marge Piercy