Books
"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
“Finally I took off my bra
So many wolves fell out"
Niina Pollari, Dead Horse
"Poetry is not evidence,
it is and it is not not not.
Somebody is lying
about the moon disappearing."
-Melissa Broder, “Dark Poem”
"Of course they are making a fuss, her being drowned and all. It’s a long time since we’ve had a drowning by flood; it’s an important event in this village."
-Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
"It would be public. It was done. I'd breathed no word to William and bade the Publishers hold their tongue. I'd return to Antwerp shortly. I would rather seek pardon there than ask permission first."
Margaret the First, Danielle Dutton
