Kathy Acker Quotes

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• I’m very staid compared to my students, actually.

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• Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

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• Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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Kathy Acker (34)

Birth:	18th April, 1947
Death:	30th November, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Poet

About

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography.

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