I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.

- Dennis Cooper

I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probabl…

- Dennis Cooper

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

- Dennis Cooper

My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and…

- Dennis Cooper

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

- Dennis Cooper

I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts to how the sound is lowe…

- Dennis Cooper

Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, …

- Dennis Cooper

When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is…

- Dennis Cooper

A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to make them real in a certain w…

- Dennis Cooper