Vivian Gornick Quotes

Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The

— Vivian Gornick

In New York there’s such diversity that there’s no one central identity; Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

In New York there’s such diversity that there’s no one central identity;

— Vivian Gornick

Of course love is a force in life. People will go on Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Of course love is a force in life. People will go on

— Vivian Gornick

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind

— Vivian Gornick

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know. Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

— Vivian Gornick

Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions. Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

— Vivian Gornick

Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we

— Vivian Gornick

I don’t write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

I don’t write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs

— Vivian Gornick

Papa’s love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Papa’s love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for

— Vivian Gornick

No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband

— Vivian Gornick

I hated being “Mrs.” from the first second each time. I didn’t Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

I hated being “Mrs.” from the first second each time. I didn’t

— Vivian Gornick

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel

— Vivian Gornick

Love can’t be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Love can’t be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature

— Vivian Gornick

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However,

— Vivian Gornick

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a

— Vivian Gornick

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn’t really Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn’t really

— Vivian Gornick

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of

— Vivian Gornick

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis – is work that Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis – is work that

— Vivian Gornick

Women occupy, in great masses, the ‘household tasks’ of industry. They are Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Women occupy, in great masses, the ‘household tasks’ of industry. They are

— Vivian Gornick

Sex is the killer. Sexual love makes you feel more vulnerable than Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Sex is the killer. Sexual love makes you feel more vulnerable than

— Vivian Gornick

Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes,

— Vivian Gornick

A scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

A scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the

— Vivian Gornick

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism

— Vivian Gornick

Whatever a scientist is doing – reading, cooking, talking, playing – science Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Whatever a scientist is doing – reading, cooking, talking, playing – science

— Vivian Gornick

A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a

— Vivian Gornick

That’s the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

That’s the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it

— Vivian Gornick

Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew

— Vivian Gornick

The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world,

— Vivian Gornick

Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to

— Vivian Gornick

Everyone longs for expressiveness. That’s why love carries so much weight. Because Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Everyone longs for expressiveness. That’s why love carries so much weight. Because

— Vivian Gornick

They may recognize themselves in what you’re writing, and then they have Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

They may recognize themselves in what you’re writing, and then they have

— Vivian Gornick

The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy

— Vivian Gornick

A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state

— Vivian Gornick

Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they

— Vivian Gornick

When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances.

— Vivian Gornick

… the whole sickening trickery in life — the idea that one cannot Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

… the whole sickening trickery in life — the idea that one cannot

— Vivian Gornick

Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession… The choice to serve and Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession… The choice to serve and

— Vivian Gornick

Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny

— Vivian Gornick

You can’t reduce an actual human being; you’re just writing! You’re not Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

You can’t reduce an actual human being; you’re just writing! You’re not

— Vivian Gornick

For me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social Vivian Gornick Picture Quote

For me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social

— Vivian Gornick

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