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 give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?
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
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
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
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…
Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear. - Kate Braverman
Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic. - Kate Braverman
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.
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
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, …
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
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…
To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds. - Kate Braverman
To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
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
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…
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. - Kate Braverman
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
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