Kathy Acker Quotes (37 Quotes)

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me You'll be able to write when you've found a voice.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

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

You know I've had work banned.

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.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

Burroughs was a very political writer.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

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 I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

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

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

You can do whatever you want with my work.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.