Quotes By Kathy Acker

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

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.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

You know I've had work banned.

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

You can do whatever you want with my work.

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.