She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?” — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
