53 Quotes by David Antin

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.