Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it. — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you.” — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time. — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it. — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.” — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“But here I am blocking the view of this simple scene, like a director who accidentally walks in front of his own projector, then… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“When I started writing I was a sick teenaged fuck inside who partly thought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a body doomed… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
