Kate Braverman
Kate Braverman
Kate Bravermanis an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She was raised in Los Angeles, which is the focus for much of her writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
writing moon pyramids
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.
writing thinking giving
writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?
writing sound logic
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.
writing illumination flare-up
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.
writing heart hunting
Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.
falling imply landscapes love marriage women
Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
acts books dangerous deal internal madame toxic work written
I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
los magical purchase requires simply ticket
You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.
art chaotic greater society
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
characters ghetto inherit narrow operating trying women writers
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
characters critics interested male men presenting publishing women writers
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
angeles area bizarre exists los outside publishing screens shallow trained work york
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
just-being bears rooms
Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.