I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

- Nell Zink

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

- Nell Zink

Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're si…

- Nell Zink

Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main con…

- Nell Zink

My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

- Nell Zink

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instea…

- Nell Zink

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

- Nell Zink

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way …

- Nell Zink

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

- Nell Zink