Corporeal Writing Quotes

#1. I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal writing" around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#2. I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#3. To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Austen

#4. Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity.

Haroutioun Bochnakian

#5. The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

Wallace Smith Broecker

#6. A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Emily Dickinson

#7. I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

Ariwara No Narihira

#8. Most people were oblivious to the luck already bestowed upon them. I'd certainly been guilty of it.

Vicki Pettersson

#9. The statues carved here may be viewed as fragments of consciousness itself, or the residue of violent emotions

Linda Lappin

#10. I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

Tiger Woods

#11. It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene

D.H. Lawrence

#12. Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

Joseph Stiglitz

#13. Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.

Tom Waits

#14. (although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

Kate Atkinson

#15. All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.

Laurel Mellin

#16. ground-nuts to keep you alive till I return. If any of you do not know how to clean and cook them, Captain Grant will show you. I promise you I will have all the food you want at this place

Michael Joseph Canavan

#17. I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

Illeana Douglas

#18. I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

Leigh Bardugo