Braverman Quotes

#1. As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

Kate Braverman

#2. To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

Kate Braverman

#3. 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.

Kate Braverman

#4. We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Franz Kafka

#5. 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.

Kate Braverman

#6. I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

Kate Braverman

#7. Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

Milton Babbitt

#8. Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

Kate Braverman

#9. I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

Kate Braverman

#10. Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

Kate Braverman

#11. De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Aldous Huxley

#12. Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

Kate Braverman

#13. I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you ... and girls love Tom Ford.

Wale

#14. 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.

Kate Braverman

#15. 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.

Kate Braverman

#16. I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

Neill Blomkamp

#17. If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

Kate Braverman

#18. Me, I don't want any children, I don't want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.

George Michael

#19. We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

James Altucher

#20. 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.

Kate Braverman

#21. 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.

Kate Braverman

#22. Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

Kate Braverman

#23. I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.

Kate Braverman

#24. I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.

Bono

#25. 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.

Kate Braverman

#26. 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.

Kate Braverman

#27. I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.

Ezra Pound

#28. I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

Kate Braverman

#29. Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.

Charles Frazier

#30. In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

Kate Braverman

#31. 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.

Kate Braverman

#32. 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.

Kate Braverman

#33. I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Stephen Covey

#34. A class cannot exist in society without in some degree manifesting a consciousness of itself as a group with common problems, interests and prospects - although this manifestation may for long periods be weak, confused, and subject to manipulation by other classes.

Harry Braverman

#35. She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Candida Martinelli

#36. A lot of time, the music reflects reality, which reflects music.

LeCrae

#37. Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

Kate Braverman

#38. I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade.

Jodi Picoult

#39. 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.

Kate Braverman

#40. All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

Kate Braverman

#41. I knew I would never be a tough girl. And yet the phrase, with its implied contradiction, articulated everything I wanted for myself. To be a girl, an inherently vulnerable position. And yet, unafraid.

Blair Braverman

#42. I don't feel I'm fighting to reach this huge audience; it just happens. I go on stage before the audience arrives and look out to this vast empty house. There's something therapeutic about taking in the ring where you'll perform.

Danielle De Niese