I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else. — Blake Butler Every day Copy Share Image
Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to… — Blake Butler Bars Copy Share Image
“There were seven men, but just one language. They also moved as one and ate one meal a day and slept in… — Blake Butler Future Copy Share Image
What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to… — Blake Butler After death Copy Share Image
So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was… — Blake Butler Combination Copy Share Image
I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy. — Blake Butler Because i can Copy Share Image
I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so… — Blake Butler Bullshit Copy Share Image
“I thought of my father, alone and elsewhere, his head cradled in his hands. I thought of the day he'd punched a… — Blake Butler Parenting Copy Share Image
I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe… — Blake Butler Believe Copy Share Image
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you… — Blake Butler Entity Copy Share Image
I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back… — Blake Butler Brain Copy Share Image
“Overhead the sky was melting, the cracked cream color rubbing off in cogs of brine. The fields far ahead of me in… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand… — Blake Butler Charismatic Copy Share Image
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the… — Blake Butler Alive Copy Share Image
I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've… — Blake Butler Children Copy Share Image
