Quotes by Vivian Gornick

VIVIAN GORNICK: A lot got left behind. I don't know how any writer puts together this kind of a collection. Someone like Janet Malcolm solves the problem by ...

Quotes by Vivian Gornick (Author of Apegos feroces) - Goodreads

I felt in my nerve endings the common refusal to go under. That refusal became company. I was never less alone than alone in the crowded street. Here, I found, ...

A Serious Woman - Lux Magazine

Vivian Gornick reflects on a life in feminism and psychoanalysis.

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “The imaginable had always ... - Goodreads

I was without imagination. I paid a kind of idiot attention to the look and feel of things, leveling an intent inner stare at the prototypic face of the world.

Everyone used to seem so grown up," I say. "Nob... - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'Everyone used to seem so grown up, I say. Nobody does ... Quotes · Ask the Author · Sign In · Join · Sign up. Dismiss. View profile. Profile ...

Unfinished Business - FSG Work in Progress

Gornick: Oh, actually, I'm reading the work of Storm Jameson. She is a long-forgotten English writer, born in 1891, died in 1986, almost a ...

Vivian Gornick's memoir Fierce Attachments - Goodreads

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Quote by Vivian Gornick: “That space. It begins in the middle of my ...

It is, variously, as wide as my body, as narrow as a slit in a fortress wall. On days when thought flows freely or better yet clarifies with effort, it expands ...

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “It is only the present she hates - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'It is only the present she hates; as soon as thepresent becomes the past, she immediately begins loving it.(On her mother)'

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “i could not but be moved - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'i could not but be moved -- by the great and the humble alike -- to pity and admiration for those who demonstrated repeatedly that to '...

Vivian Gornick · Orgasm isn't my bag: On the 'Village Voice'

Writers taught themselves on the job. Some did it well, others badly. The result was a noisy mixture of pieces that nailed and pieces that ...

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “The exchange will always deepen, even if ...

Vivian Gornick — 'The exchange will always deepen, even if the friendship does not.'

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “If she would work he wouldn't ... - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'If she would work he wouldn't have to keep her in the house. She wouldn't be crazy, and she could tell him to go to hell. Did you ever ...

Vivian Gornick | The Poetry Foundation

Vivian Gornick is a critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. She earned a BA from City College of New York in 1957 and an MA from New York University in ...

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “It was through the discovery ... - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'It was through the discovery and exploration of the unconscious that Freud made his major discoveries, chief among them that from birth...

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “And I—the girl growing in their midst ...

Vivian Gornick — 'And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face....

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “Once again, I stared at him - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'Once again, I stared at him: only this stare was different from those other stares. A man was pressing me to do something I did not wan...

Quote by Vivian Gornick: “The essay becomes an ... - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'The essay becomes an exercise in the meaning and value of watching a writer conquer their own sense of threat to deliver themself of th...

The live, warm presence of my mother had disapp... - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to ...

Everyone who had ever cared to investigate the - Goodreads

Vivian Gornick — 'Everyone who had ever cared to investigate the nature of human loneliness had seen that only one's own working mind breaks the solitude...