Peter Sotos

“If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.”

“I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.”

“In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.”

“Pornography won’t be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want to smell and taste the true information. All artists want to make their fantasies reality. And everyone with a cock wants to use it to fall in love.”

“Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.”

“Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.”

“And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.”

“I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.”

“I'm not trying to do conceptual art.”

“Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.”

“The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.”

“Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.”

“But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.”