Top 25 Kate Braverman Quotes
#1. I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.
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#5. In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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#9. Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
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#10. 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.
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#11. All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
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#12. Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
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#13. To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
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#14. The Peruvian flute music is ... cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.
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#17. Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.
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#18. I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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#19. Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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#20. As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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#21. Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.
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#22. 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.
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#24. The place between actual seasons is filled with tiny roses in transition. There are murders and amputations in the garden. There are choirs on the sandy floors beneath oceans.
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#25. I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.
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