writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to giv…

- Kate Braverman

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write be…

- Kate Braverman

I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arriva…

- Kate Braverman

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

- Kate Braverman

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

- Kate Braverman

They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, …

- Kate Braverman

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

- Kate Braverman

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you ba…

- Kate Braverman

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

- Kate Braverman