Kathy Acker Quotes

I've always been entranced by writing.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to express what I wanted to express.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I've been writing since I was really young.

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

Writing is my No. 1 passion.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else.

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like, the worst. It turns into a ska song even if I'm trying to write like a horror movie sound track or something.

Write what you love and love what you write.

We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.