As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music and poetry,… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams? — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share
