Books
"Have you ever had your heart broken? It’s something that instills a great sense of dread, and it colours everything that happens afterwards in an endless, linear, slow motion. And I hate linearity. It bores everyone."
-Trisha Low, The Compleat Purge
Art supercedes what's personal. It's a philosophy that serves patriarchy well and I followed it more or less for 20 years.
That is: until I met you.
–Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
"I don’t want to be miserable, but I also want to embrace the fucked-up, to move towards a maturity and strength that can include and express weakness and embarrassing content of all sorts without shame, to allow myself the full resonance of being a female subject (and all the other categorical adjectives that could be applied to me) living in a fucked up nation, in a fucked up world, in the 21st century."
-Dodie Bellamy, the buddhist
"You will find this, perhaps, an over-intellectualization of the event. Indeed, but this was what I was trained to do. This, and pliés."
-Barbara Browning, I’m Trying To Reach You
"That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all."
-Renata Adler, Speedboat
