Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes About Writing

• I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art. I'd say you can love art how you wish to be loved. And I'd say art is a lifeline to the rest of us - we are out here. You are not alone. There is nothing about you that scares us. There is nothing unlovable about you, either.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Art, Writing, Wish

  Interview with Molly Gaudry, thelitpub.com. June 2, 2011.

• I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Not Alone

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.133, Hawthorne Books

• On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about literary forms, they could write something dunderheaded about the author or their life (I've seen these and barfed at them), but anyone who is well-practiced and educated in literature - why would they leave that at the door when entering memoir?

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Doors, Entering

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• La mayoría de mis elecciones formales son una combinación de todo lo que aprendí sobre la forma: semiótica, lingüística y la historia de las experimentaciones estilísticas vinculadas a los movimientos literarios (formalismo, deconstrucción, modernismo y posmodernismo), y el principio básico de romper todas las reglas que aprendí de una tradición de escritura patriarcal que nunca incluyó mi cuerpo ni mi experiencia y que, por tanto, no tiene nada que ofrecerme en términos de representación.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Choices, Style

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Trabajo a partir del cuerpo, intento desarrollar un lenguaje corporal. He inventado un término que llamo "escritura corpórea" en torno a esa idea. Me encanta enseñar y colaborar en torno a esta idea, porque nunca se ha producido un nuevo avance en la literatura porque todo el mundo estuviera haciendo lo que ya existía.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Enseñanza, Escritura, Ideas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Opportunity, Doe

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Character, Desire

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it gets bandied about a good bit) is that they don't write the "big" stories about "universal" or "worldly" concepts...Jesus. Um, when we do? We get told to get back in the kitchen and bedroom - go back to writing about love-y wife-y mother-y things.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Mother, Jesus, Writing

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if it's not all goo-ey and sentimental we're told it's "cold" or "uncaring" or "emotionally vacant." In other words, responses to women's writing in particular continue to be "gendered."

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Editors, Agents

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question, so that if you are a reviewer or you are writing a critique you might feel as if you are stepping on someone's actual face?

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Puede que piense que se ha alcanzado la igualdad, que no existe ninguna relación de poder en términos de clase, raza o género, puede que sólo quiera beberme mi café con leche y comprarme zapatos bonitos y escribir libros sobre chicas que se casan, mueren o se vuelven locas, y luego ir a hacerme la manicura.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Chica, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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