Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon CBE FRSLis an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 September 1931
confidence writing impossible
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
real writing stories
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
writing practice peculiar
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
writing generosity people
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
writing gathering thorns
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
writing occupation profession
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
writing style looks
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
writing learning states
one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
committees
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
people
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
man
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
practice mind affirmation
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
clothes today looks
Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?
party clothes people
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.