Kate Zambreno Quotes About Writing

• 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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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

  Enseñanza, Escritura, Práctica

  "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.

• Uno de mis momentos de llegar a la escritura, de necesitar escribir para intentar crearme a mí mismo, para intentar absolver y comprender mi pasada pasividad, llegó cuando una chica a la que quería mucho, de la que llevaba tiempo distanciado, se suicidó.

  Kate Zambreno

  Chica, Escribir, Pasado

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Intento decir a los estudiantes que lean todo lo posible, no sólo literatura, sino también filosofía y teoría, y que se obsesionen. Hay un gran tabú en los talleres de escritura creativa de ficción contra el uso del yo, y creo que intento animar a los estudiantes a que escriban sobre sí mismos, pero que conecten el yo con algo más grande, que es ser esta persona pensante, que ve, que busca, eternamente curiosa, y que la escritura puede surgir de investigar e intentar comprender la confusión, las dudas y las obsesiones.

  Kate Zambreno

  Filosofía, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "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

  Fuente: 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

  Escribir, pensar, 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

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• 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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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