"Writing enters into us when it gives us……" — Vivian Gornick
"Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all."
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10 Quotes by Vivian Gornick
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Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker…
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Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the…
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A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and…
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What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge
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You are the instrument of your own illumination.
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Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for…
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The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and…
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What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able…
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Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the workingclass.…
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