I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!
When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia. - Kate Zambreno
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
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 …
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. - Kate Zambreno
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius. - Kate Zambreno
I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.
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
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…
My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it. - Kate Zambreno
My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.
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
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.
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
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…
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
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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