Breeding Quote by Doris Grumbach

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from…

— Doris Grumbach

These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes…

— Doris Grumbach

Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.

— Doris Grumbach

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

— Doris Grumbach

Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait,…

— Doris Grumbach

Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if…

— Doris Grumbach

Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space…

— Doris Grumbach

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

— Doris Grumbach

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

— Doris Grumbach

one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them…

— Doris Grumbach

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

— Doris Grumbach