I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to. — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
“They should build a monument,” Cary said. “All the times I got my ass beat to a pulp so the youth of today could… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
“I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity in telling… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics. — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way. — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
“Why shouldn’t loving puppets be a revolutionary act, in a world where so many people love drone warfare?” — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
“I mean No South. You can’t have ‘New’ and ‘South.’ It’s oxymoronic. I’m talking about the No South. The unstoppable force that’s putting in… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
“For jobs and men, it’s a seller’s market. There are no other fish in the sea.” — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
