All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work. — 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;… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
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
I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I once told a very serious writer/poet I knew about how obsessed I was with various women’s lives. I think I was talking about… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
