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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Activist
Climate Activist
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Detroit
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.
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Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
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Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
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Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
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We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
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The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.
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I wasn't afraid of being poor I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
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I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.
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