51 Quotes by Kate Braverman

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.