Wayne Koestenbaum Quotes

#1. The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#2. I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I'm having sex with words in front of you. I'm playing around with them. I'm getting off. I'm trying to titillate you. There's this magical substance, language, that I'm laying out for you. Then you're going to fondle it.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#3. I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#4. Prose divides shame into stations.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#5. Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!

Wayne Koestenbaum

#6. I seek for myself the immunity of the diplomatic pouch.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#7. Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

Wayne Koestenbaum