And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation. – Kathy Acker
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. – Kathy Acker
I’m really fascinated and you know I’ve been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. – Kathy Acker
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out. – Kathy Acker
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. – Kathy Acker
I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it. – Kathy Acker
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. – Kathy Acker
First of all, writing at best – certainly fiction writing – more and more I think is magic. – Kathy Acker
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? – Kathy Acker
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. – Kathy Acker
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. – Kathy Acker
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in. – Kathy Acker
I think it’s really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever. – Kathy Acker
I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. – Kathy Acker
I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can’t be seen fully. It’s sorta internal censorship. We censor each other. – Kathy Acker
