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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.

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

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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 …

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

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

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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…

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

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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.

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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…

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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…

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