“Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Writing implies faith in someone listening,/ different in content but not need/ from the child who cries in the night./ Making is… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction.… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
