155 Quotes by Kathy Acker

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.

You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me: You'll be able to write when you've found a voice.

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.