142 Quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch

The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned – because they had to be – and a new kind of coming-of-age and love story emerged that required a different kind of telling the story.

When they own languages, she thought, we are terrorists. When we own them, we are revolutionaries.

It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.

I’ve noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the intellectual in their creative material way more than you would believe.

Because in loving his darkness I found my own.

To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent – the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.

Sometimes you grow up in the space of a minute.

I work from the body – I try to develop a language of the body. I’ve invented a term I call “corporeal writing” around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there.

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.