Kathy Acker Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

  Kathy Acker

  Women, Writing, Reality

  "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.

• Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Thinking, Jazz

• I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because Im not so censored when I use dream material.

  Kathy Acker

  Dream, Writing, People

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

• First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Thinking, Magic

• Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Expression, Machines

  Source: bombmagazine.org

• 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

• I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, After Death, Happens

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