“As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.” WayValuesTermRelevancePotency Author:Marisa Silver
“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.” PeopleWayStoriesOrderAttitudeIdentityPrevailingPhysicality Author:Marisa Silver
“I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.” PeopleFacesEnduranceHardshipPersist Author:Marisa Silver
“We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.” LightFlowerBraveReachingWondrousReaching Up Author:Marisa Silver
“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.” KnowsWritingCharacterFactsDarkKnow HowKnowingConditionsUnexpectedNot KnowingSomething Unexpected Author:Marisa Silver
“I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.” WritingBookChoicesCan DoTalkingWrittenPagesManageLive LifeYou Can Do It Author:Alice Mattison
“Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.” AbleStuffEasierUpsetAbstractBe Confident Author:Alice Mattison