Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 18, 1947 Death: November 30, 1997
Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me..
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified..
Culture is that which falsifies..
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic..
But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men..
Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting….
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and ac….
LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS….
I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I ….
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility..
But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order….
You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that c….
Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing..
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive..
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 sta….
But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world….
It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each ….
There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something ….
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates..
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really ….
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla….