Nancy K. Miller quotes

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
-- Nancy K. Miller

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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.