Kate Zambreno Quotes

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• I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Thinking, Keys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Imperfection, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Writing, Boring, Orderly

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

  Kate Zambreno

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Writing, Greatness

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. November 18, 2012.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

  "The naming is a political act, the writing is a political act, a revolt against disappearance". Interview With Noah Charney, logger.believermag.com. November 3, 2014.

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• If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Narrative, Rhetoric

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Thinking, Mad, Wife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

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  Mean, Genius, Worthy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Notebook, Years, Agitation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Important, Slim

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Home, Sick, Expectations

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Canon, Memoir

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "Why Don't You Like Me? writers Tamara Faith Berger and Kate Zambreno in conversation". Interview With Tamara Faith Berger, logger.believermag.com. November 1, 2012.

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• 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

  Thinking, Getting Older, Our Society

  Source: therumpus.net

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• How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.

  Kate Zambreno

  Men, Doctors, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Nerves, Genius

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Patriarchy is having the power to name.

  Kate Zambreno

  Names, Patriarchy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, preferring the shade of the mythologized men, who want to keep up the status quo.

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Men, Groups

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

  Kate Zambreno

  Greatness, Men, Excess

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

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  Biographies, Whole

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Writing, Discipline, Realizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

  Kate Zambreno

  Teaching, Writing, Practice

  "The naming is a political act, the writing is a political act, a revolt against disappearance". Interview with Noah Charney, logger.believermag.com. November 3, 2014.

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• 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

  Stress, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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