I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature. Kate Zambreno More Quotes by Kate Zambreno More Quotes From Kate Zambreno The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. Kate Zambreno excessgreatnessmen On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them. Kate Zambreno biographieswhole I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions. Kate Zambreno writingphilosophythinking I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful! Kate Zambreno writingideasthinking I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis. Kate Zambreno getting-olderour-societythinking For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage. Kate Zambreno agitationnotebookyears My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it. Kate Zambreno slimimportantwriting I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability. Kate Zambreno nonfictionlazywish All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work. Kate Zambreno orderlyboringwriting I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejournal or Tumblr - excessive, sometimes automatic, sometimes enraged, emotional, while also quite intellectual - or if formal books will emerge at all, if that's not the point of these unmediated raw spaces. I'm excited by the possibility. Kate Zambreno emotionalwritingbook It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath. Kate Zambreno realizingdisciplinewriting People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress. Kate Zambreno stresspeoplethinking If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. Kate Zambreno rhetoricnarrativewriting I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route. Kate Zambreno madwifethinking I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance. Kate Zambreno inheritanceheterosexuality-isdisease When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia. Kate Zambreno I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person. Kate Zambreno sickexpectationshome My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots. Kate Zambreno politicalrootsway People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature. Kate Zambreno ridiculousliteraturepeople I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it. Kate Zambreno onlinespacethinking
