20 Quotes by Francine du Plessix Gray

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation.

Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.

All our parents have levels of deviousness. We’re driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who’ve reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.