Ed Acker Quotes

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

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.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.

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

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

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

'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts.

Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.

The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.

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

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

All memory can do is scream for touch.

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

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

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

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

Culture is that which falsifies.

You know I've had work banned.

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

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Ive always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you.

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

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

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.