Writing Unless Quotes by Rachel Zucker

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

— Rachel Zucker

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

— Rachel Zucker

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

— Rachel Zucker

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster…

— Rachel Zucker

“a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier”

— Rachel Zucker

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

— Rachel Zucker

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

— Rachel Zucker

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

— Rachel Zucker

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

— Rachel Zucker

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

— Rachel Zucker

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

— Rachel Zucker