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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

American - Novelist | November 11, 1954 -

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

Fool People Present Trying You Want

When looking out the window and watching the water becomes a drama, then literally everything is a drama.

Water Window Looking Drama Watching

I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.

Writing Strong Think Back Young Way

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

Work Morning Dinner Night Start Go

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

Me Doing Go Sometimes Want Right

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

Focus Writing You Sometimes Need

I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.

Writing Think Late Difficult Started

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

Myself Book Grind Want Out Keep

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

Vision Writing Language Speech Way

I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.

Women Children Me Feel Remember

I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would want to bring kids into a world like this?' Or, 'I don't want to spend my life that way. I want to do my artwork.' And they're very unapologetically stating this.

Life Women Age World Saying My Life

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

Me You Said Want Write Fiction

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