31 Quotes by Kenneth Goldsmith

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

What I’m doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it’s never really been tested on the page.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you’ve read what someone else has written.

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.