Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Book, Water

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.99, Hawthorne Books

• Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Order, Water, Wish

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2011). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.15, Hawthorne Books

• The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Rocks, Hands, Water

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.18, Hawthorne Books

• Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Art, Issues, Water

  Source: therumpus.net

• One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within it are free-floating, but we put them in a certain order to get them to have meaning for us. If we left them alone, they'd be like water, like the ocean. It would be just this vast field of free-floating matter or signs, so in this way, I think language and water have much in common. It's only us bringing grammar and syntax and diction and the human need for meaning that orders language, hierarchizes it.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Ocean, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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