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 a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems… — 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
