Writer Quotes by Torrey Peters

9 Writer quotes by Torrey Peters

Torrey Peters’s reflections on the writer’s role come in nine concise lines, echoing her focus on identity, desire, and modern relationships. The set offers a brief, nuanced look at how she approaches storytelling with honesty and nuance.

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A lot of writing is everybody being revealed, but the reader should feel like only they are being revealed.

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A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

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Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves - they're not pure pastiche.

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In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

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When I start working early, I write things that I wouldn't if all my defences were up; I discover the emotional core…

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For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind…

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I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does…

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The idea that you would read Jesmyn Ward for credentials is, like, you've missed the point of the beauty of her writing…

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It's coming home for me as a writer, which means that, with my friends, I'd have to be able to write through…

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Certainly, not all trans people like my writing.

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I have a lot of sympathy for people who detransition.

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I think hanging out is the best incubation for cultural creation.

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At certain moments in my life, I have stumbled upon a beauty so extreme, I have stepped back in alarm. There are some people…

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I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness.

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It's not just unexpected for other people. It's very unexpected for myself. But I think that's like a really good place to write from,…

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When I'm open to beauty's true power, I believe it changes me for the better.

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People are going to make mistakes no matter what because that's what being human is.

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I mean, I don't relate to characters who are perfect. If someone offers up somebody as a role model, I'm going to be like,…

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At the time that 'Detransition, Baby' came out, I was really resistant to having anybody say that I was representing trans women. Because there…

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I'm from the Midwest, and I was raised a boy. If you told my 17-year-old self that when you turn 40, you're going to…

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