Bill Ayers Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.

  Bill Ayers

  Party, Book, Writing

  Source: thepointmag.com

• I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

  Bill Ayers

  Writing, Lectures, Silent

• Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

  Bill Ayers

  Writing, Narcissism, Excited

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

• One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

  Bill Ayers

  Letting Go, Writing, World

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

• Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.

  Bill Ayers

  Fun, Real, Teaching

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

• I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.

  Bill Ayers

  Tattoo, Book, Writing

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

• Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx wrote about the working class he was writing about something much more bounded than we're talking about.

  Bill Ayers

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

  Source: thepointmag.com

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