Doris Grumbach Quotes

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  • My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

    Mother   Father   Water  
    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.46, Open Road Media
  • Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.39, Open Road Media
  • Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.

    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.22, Open Road Media
  • Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?

    Depression   Baby   Book  
    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Extra Innings: A Memoir”, p.7, Open Road Media
  • one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.

    Friends   Long   Loses  
    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.45, Open Road Media
  • The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.

    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.11, Open Road Media
  • Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

    Air   Ideas   Silence  
    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.49, Open Road Media
  • Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing.

    Self   Games   Space  
  • These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a wonderful stew of the past, the life caught in memory and imagination, serves it all up lavishly laced with silences, and provides us with a gourmand's series of short courses.

    Memories   Unique   Past  
  • Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

    Age   Dieting   Old Age  
    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.9, Open Road Media
  • We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?

    Thinking   Long   Doubt  
    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.12, Open Road Media
  • My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

    Eye   Crafts   Tiny  
  • A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

    Hands   Ladders   Fists  
    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.8, Open Road Media
  • What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

    Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.56, Open Road Media
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