Writing Quotes by Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick

The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it’s the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts.

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Vivian Gornick

The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. … The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.

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Vivian Gornick

They may recognize themselves in what you’re writing, and then they have to say, “Well, she doesn’t see me as I see myself.” All a writer has is her own experience, and that experience comes out of human relationships.

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Vivian Gornick

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

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Vivian Gornick

When the whole world is writing letters, it’s easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one’s thought is not a value, only a common practice.

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Vivian Gornick

Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of at the time that we are reading. How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.

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Writing Quotes by Vivian Gornick

The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it’s the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts.

They may recognize themselves in what you’re writing, and then they have to say, “Well, she doesn’t see me as I see myself.” All a writer has is her own experience, and that experience comes out of human relationships.

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

When the whole world is writing letters, it’s easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one’s thought is not a value, only a common practice.

Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of at the time that we are reading. How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.

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