Language Doesn Quotes by Blake Butler

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

— Blake Butler

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a…

— Blake Butler

It is important not to show too many inches at once.

— Blake Butler

“There were seven men, but just one language. They also moved as one and ate one meal a day and slept in the same…

— Blake Butler

I always want to sleep on the third date.

— Blake Butler

What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but…

— Blake Butler

“DAYS ARE WEEKS AND WEEKS ARE DAYS INSIDE YOU”

— Blake Butler

So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple…

— Blake Butler

My love is inside me where my fat was.

— Blake Butler

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

— Blake Butler

I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for…

— Blake Butler

“I thought of my father, alone and elsewhere, his head cradled in his hands. I thought of the day he'd punched a hole straight…

— Blake Butler

I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when…

— Blake Butler

“black beyond black”

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I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler