Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon
Mary Catherine Gordonis an American writer and the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 December 1949
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
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My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
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The change that Mr. Barnard wants to make in the school board policy is utterly ridiculous.
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My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.
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I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.
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It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.