“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“If you have ever fucked up in your life, or if the great river of sadness that runs through us all has… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings -… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“He treated...my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“This man was gorgeous. I'm mentioning this because women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“We'd cry great waves of love and rage for this young woman, whose resistance made our own lives look empty as nadless ball sacks… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s last wish turned out to be love: may I be consumed by the simplicity and purity of a love story, any love, base… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life had I… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
