Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker
Kathy Ackerwas an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy and pornography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
people want middle
You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
mean hygiene people
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.
dream writing people
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 Im not so censored when I use dream material.
order people insane
But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.
hurt thinking people
I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
book people
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
against american-activist dangerous rules writers
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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I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.
american-activist examine government high literary
The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.
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We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
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I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
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I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
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But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.