"I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman."

-- Claire Messud

#Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes #Missing Quotes

“There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.”
“At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.”

Source : Interview by Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.
“Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin
“Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.”
“My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.”
“I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.”
“Even with Godâ€™s help there is no substitute for the hard work.”
“Christianity is such a silly religion.”

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