31 Quotes by Kenneth Goldsmith

You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.

If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.

It’s not plagiarism in the digital age – it’s repurposing.

Automation and technology don’t cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one’s mastery of information and its dissemination.

You can’t show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

Conceptual writing is looking for that “Aha!” moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way – it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

I think it’s time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.