Kate Zambreno Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Writing, Greatness

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. November 18, 2012.

• I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejournal or Tumblr - excessive, sometimes automatic, sometimes enraged, emotional, while also quite intellectual - or if formal books will emerge at all, if that's not the point of these unmediated raw spaces. I'm excited by the possibility.

  Kate Zambreno

  Book, Writing, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

• My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Important, Slim

  Source: therumpus.net

• All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Boring, Orderly

  Source: therumpus.net

• It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Discipline, Realizing

  Source: therumpus.net

• If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Narrative, Rhetoric

  Source: therumpus.net

• I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

  Kate Zambreno

  Teaching, Writing, Practice

  "The naming is a political act, the writing is a political act, a revolt against disappearance". Interview with Noah Charney, logger.believermag.com. November 3, 2014.

• One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

• I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.

  Kate Zambreno

  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

  "The naming is a political act, the writing is a political act, a revolt against disappearance". Interview With Noah Charney, logger.believermag.com. November 3, 2014.

• I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Thinking, Keys

  Source: therumpus.net

• I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "Why Don't You Like Me? writers Tamara Faith Berger and Kate Zambreno in conversation". Interview With Tamara Faith Berger, logger.believermag.com. November 1, 2012.

• The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Imperfection, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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