Writer Quotes by Kate Zambreno

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

“Ruth loved color so much she rarely wore any. Except on her face.”

— Kate Zambreno

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

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

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

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

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

— Kate Zambreno

“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

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

— Kate Zambreno

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

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

— Kate Zambreno

“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?”

— Kate Zambreno

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

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

“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