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Marge Piercy Quotes about Writing

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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must

Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

Marge Piercy
Writing, Silence, Risk

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

Marge Piercy
Writing, Moments, Disappear

The real writer is one who really writes.

Marge Piercy
Real, Writing
Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.260, Knopf

I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.

Marge Piercy
Children, Book, Writing
Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Marge Piercy
Real, Writing, Fire
Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.112, Knopf

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

Marge Piercy
Writing, Men, Interesting
Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

Marge Piercy
Writing, Self, Guilty
Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.

Marge Piercy
Memories, Writing, Past
Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

Marge Piercy
Character, Writing, Important
Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.

Marge Piercy
Writing, Sacrifice, Littles
Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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