Writing Quotes by Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

Survival

Survivor

Writing

Tillie Olsen

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences–what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)–that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.

Lying

Struggle

Writing

Tillie Olsen

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

Audience

Kind

Writing

Tillie Olsen

The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years – responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters – stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.

Responsibility

Writing

Years

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Achievement

Aggravation

America

Audience

Blood

Book

Commodity

Daughter

Distraction

Dna

Doe

Economy

Generosity

Granted

Growing Up

Hands

Inspirational

Kind

Long

Lying

Mean

Meditation

Men

Motherhood

Mouths

Moving

Peace

Profit

Race

Reality

Religion

Remember

Responsibility

Responsible

Rhythm

Sea

Skin Color

Solitude

Struggle

Surface

Survival

Survivor

Thinking

Time

Time Management

Toil

Used

Voice

Women

Worry

Writing

Years

Writing Quotes by Tillie Olsen

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

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John Berger

Sanford Biggers

George Washington Carver

Michel Foucault

Jean Little

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