List of Claire Messud Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 42 inspiring quotes by Claire Messud.

About Claire Messud

  • Born: October 8, 1966
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. and that didn't used to be the case. sexuality is a social construction as much as anything else and i think the realities of sexuality don't always fit into the social constructions that we have, and we live in a goal-oriented time - on all fronts.
    Reality Thinking Desire
    But we're lost in a world of appearances now.
    World Appearance Lost
    Does being happy simply create more time, in the way that being sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).
    Being Sad Doe Sauce
    I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
    Believe Writing What Matters
    I measure my life out in books." "you should be measuring your life by living. correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. what's the point?
    Book Should Measuring
    To my mind, guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in america today.
    America Intellectual Mind
    If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
    Reading Trouble Ifs
    Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
    Artist World Definitions
    And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, i'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.
    Mother Dream Grief
    Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. at any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among us. there are clairvoyants to see ghosts; but who sees the invisible emotions, the unrecorded events? who is that sees love, more evanescent than any ghost, let alone can catch it? who are you tell me that i don't know what love is?
    Mean Love Is Events
    As my wise friend didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.
    Wise Departure Afar
    We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. but i think women's anger sits less well than anything else. women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than other women who think: oh, goodness, well, if i let the lid off, where would we be?
    Thinking People Scary
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