"Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something."

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Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

Vito Acconci

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.”
“I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.”
“I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.”

Source : Interview with A.J. Sheeran, tv.avclub.com. October 18, 2011.
“The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.”
“Everyone has ocean's to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”
“I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.”
“There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.”
“There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to sleep at night, or keep our food down.”

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