Claire Messud Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it’s totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry. I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

  Claire Messud

  Book, Writing, Men

• I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

  Claire Messud

  Believe, Writing, What Matters

  "Claire Messud and Robin Desser". Interview with Robin Desser, www.slate.com. May 3, 2013.

• I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

  Claire Messud

  Writing, Voice, Missing

  "Great Male Protagonists We Wouldn’t Want to Be Friends With" by Claire Fallon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2013.

• I’m not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don’t seek a wide swath of feedback.

  Claire Messud

  Writing, Groups, Way

  "Claire Messud and Robin Desser". Interview with Robin Desser, www.slate.com. May 3, 2013.

• Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

  Claire Messud

  Writing, Essentials, World

  "Claire Messud and Robin Desser". Interview with Robin Desser, www.slate.com. May 3, 2013.

• I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

  Claire Messud

  Writing, Students

  Source: www.slate.com

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