Vivian Gornick Quotes

A Serious Life, By Definition, Is A Life One Reflects On, A Life One Tries To Make Sense Of And Bear Witness To. Truth In A Memoir Is Achieved Not Through A Recital Of Actual Events; It Is Achieved When The Reader Comes To Believe That The Writer Is Working Hard To Engage With The Experience At Hand. What Happened To The Writer Is Not What Matters; What Matters Is The Large Sense That The Writer Is Able To Make Of What Happened.

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