When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about leaving the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
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