Marisa Silver Quotes

• Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

  Marisa Silver

  Thinking, Discovery, Make You Think

  Marisa Silver (2013). “Mary Coin: A Novel”, p.193, Penguin

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• But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

  Marisa Silver

  Fashion, Age, Form

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• Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

  Marisa Silver

  Children, People, Trying

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• Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

  Marisa Silver

  Writing, Brain, Subconscious

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• I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.

  Marisa Silver

  Attitude, Order, People

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• In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

  Marisa Silver

  Writing, Character, Dark

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• The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

  Marisa Silver

  Facts, Language, Sometimes

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• We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

  Marisa Silver

  Giving, Age, Birth

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• Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

  Marisa Silver

  Attention, Strange, Folktales

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• The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

  Marisa Silver

  Issues, Brain, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

  Marisa Silver

  People, Endurance, Hardship

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• We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.

  Marisa Silver

  Flower, Reaching Up, Light

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• I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

  Marisa Silver

  Book, Knows

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• As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

  Marisa Silver

  Way, Potency, Term

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