Kathy Acker

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

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(80 votes)   You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.

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

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(58 votes)   I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

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(53 votes)   I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

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(51 votes)   And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

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(51 votes)   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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(51 votes)   That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

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(49 votes)   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.

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

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(48 votes)   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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(47 votes)   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.

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(44 votes)   Burroughs was a very political writer.

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

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(38 votes)   I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

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