The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just… — 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… — 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
In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“If you are one of those people who has the ability to make it down to the bottom of the ocean, the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“And if there is water there let it be from a river. And if there is peace let it be from silence… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss… — 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
Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did.… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“It's a movie about everything. This world we live in. The bodies we're stuck with. The lives we get whether we want… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“I 'passed' in every sphere of regular life I entered, but I entered those spheres less and less, and spent more and… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“What I learned from that intensely educational period of my life is that one kind of misfit is the person who suffers… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Out of the sad sack of sad shit that was my life, I made a wordhouse.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting… — 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
