Kathy Acker

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

“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.”

“Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.”

“Dreams are manifestations of identities.”

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

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

“The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.”

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

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