Quotes by Kathy Acker

"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."

"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."

"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."

"I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?"

"I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used."

"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."

"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."

"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."

"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."

"You can do whatever you want with my work."

"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."

"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."

"That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing."

"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out."

"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible."

"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."

"I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it."

"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."

"I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it."