The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I wake up and read although Nietzsche says that’s foolish. A sort of narcotic, reading. I read with my hands down the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I once told a very serious writer/poet I knew about how obsessed I was with various women’s lives. I think I was… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Lots of talk lately about the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL that seems to be exclusively masculine. And how many of the characters in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline;… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?” — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
