Marge Piercy Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

• 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

• Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Memories, Husband

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Men, Interesting

  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 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.

• The real writer is one who really writes.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Writing

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

• Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Memories, Moving

  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.

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