Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.
From Lorrie Moore
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'
I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.
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