Kathy Acker Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

  Kathy Acker

  Expectations, Trying, Language

  "Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?". Interview with R.U. Sirius, io Magazine, Issue 2, www.altx.com. December 9, 1997.

• Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

  Kathy Acker

  Language

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.253, Grove Press

• I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.

  Kathy Acker

  Dream, Pirate, Treasure

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

• In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

  Kathy Acker

  Lying, Political, Warfare

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

• A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Connections, Language

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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