Mary Gaitskill Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Art, Writing, Empathy

• Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Writing, White, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Mary Gaitskill from May 15, 2012

• I think the closest thing I can come to defining what that vital thing is for me - is that there's a sort of soul-quality in writing, if it's any good. It has a spirit or an energy to it that is very integral to who the writer is on a deep level. It's almost a cellular thing. It takes place in the cells of the writing, and it is what makes it alive or not.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Writing, Thinking, Cells

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

• When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Writing, Fiction, Want

  "Author Mary Gaitskill Pushes Boundaries". Interview with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. April 19, 2009.

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