Kathy Acker Quotes

• I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.

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  Tags in Identify, Read

• 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.

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  Tags in Censorship

• 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.

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

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

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  Tags in Hurt

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

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  Tags in Differences, Understand

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censored, Writing, Overcome

• You know I’ve had work banned.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Banned, Know

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

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  Tags in Fiction

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Voice, Idea

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Supportive, Men

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

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Political, Tool, Effective, Very

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Working, Easily, Trying, Language

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

  Kathy Acker

  Topics in Country, Power

  Tags in Right Wing, Reasons, Talks

Kathy Acker (34)

Birth:	18th April, 1947
Death:	30th November, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Poet

About

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography.

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