Ben Marcus Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

  Ben Marcus

  Teaching, Writing, Thinking

• To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

  Ben Marcus

  Art, Writing, Technology

• People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is a crime scene: People eat space with their bodies; they are rain decayers; the wind is slaughtered when they move. A retaliation is probably coming. Should a person cease to move, she would cease to kill the sky, and the world might begin to recover.

  Ben Marcus

  Sweet, Mistake, Rain

  Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.46, Vintage

• I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

  Ben Marcus

  Summer, Writing, Kids

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

• When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

  Ben Marcus

  Writing, Emotional, Levels

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

• I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there wouldn't be enough feeling in them, and maybe if there's a progression at all to anything that I've done it's that I've always wanted to have a high - an almost overwhelming - degree of feeling in what I write.

  Ben Marcus

  Writing, Feelings, Done

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