When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

- Kate Zambreno

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them …

- Kate Zambreno

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

- Kate Zambreno

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

- Kate Zambreno

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

- Kate Zambreno

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…

- Kate Zambreno

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecd…

- Kate Zambreno

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main char…

- Kate Zambreno

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