I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas. — Aaron Belz Copy Share
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter. — Aaron Belz Copy Share
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that? — Aaron Belz Copy Share
The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product,… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures. — Aaron Belz Copy Share
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out,… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre.… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean… — Aaron Belz Copy Share
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough. — Aaron Belz Copy Share
