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Marcy Sheiner

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March 21, 1946

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Born in the Bronx. Stuck in California with the New York Blues.


M. Sheiner is also the editor of several anthologies of women's erotica.
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Average rating: 3.58 · 542 ratings · 48 reviews · 34 distinct worksSimilar authors
Herotica 4: A New Collectio...

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Herotica 5: A New Collectio...

3.47 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
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3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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Best of Best Women's Erotica

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Best Women's Erotica

3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Herotica 6: A New Collectio...

3.19 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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The Heart's Invisible Furies

I loved this book for most of the story, which is epic. At some point, however, I lost patience with the author's gaps in time--each section takes place seven years after the previous one--even when he fills in the important details later.

The book spans a lifetime, and tells, primarily, the story of a gay man born and bred in Ireland. The country's anti-sex, homophobic history and the terrorizati Read more of this blog post »
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“If your career doesn’t work out, write a book about it.”
Marcy Sheiner

“Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or "way," an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious—a changed quality of mind and heart, satisfactions no non-novelist can understand—and its rigors generally bring no profit except to the spirit. For those who are authentically called to the profession, spiritual profits are enough.--John Gardner”
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“It is the discrepancy between the promise implicit in his touch and his daily interactions with her that generates so much confusion and ambivalence for Martha.--from Lo Siento”
Marcy Sheiner, Love and Other Illusions: Short Stories

“For me, writing was the only way out.”
Anne Tyler, The Writer on Her Work

“The most clear-sided view of the darkest
possible situation is itself an act of optimism”
Jean-Paul Sartre

“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.”
Hunter S. Thompson

“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
Isabel Allende

“Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.”
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Marcy Vicki wrote: "Marcy I love your quotes, they make me laugh every time I read them."

Thanks, Vicki. Collecting quotes is kind of a hobby of mine.


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