I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care. — Kate Braverman Book Copy Share Image
“walking on boulevards and beaches, examining postcards, studying angles of light and shadow” — Kate Braverman Art Copy Share Image
I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime. — Kate Braverman Ability Copy Share Image
All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode. — Kate Braverman Agony Copy Share Image
“The place between actual seasons is filled with tiny roses in transition. There are murders and amputations in the garden. There are… — Kate Braverman Flower Copy Share Image
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of… — Kate Braverman Aliens Copy Share Image
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads… — Kate Braverman Cool music Copy Share Image
You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You… — Kate Braverman Angeles Copy Share Image
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in… — Kate Braverman Challenging Copy Share Image
Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend. — Kate Braverman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Francisca recognized that she was decoding an entire process, detail by detail. She was learning a certain alphabet, a geography, a language… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on… — Kate Braverman Appease Copy Share Image
“It's not platinum, which suggests constellations and redemption. It's another yellow entirely. Asthma yellow. It comes from rotting petals and camera flashes… — Kate Braverman Wrong people Copy Share Image
I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous… — Kate Braverman Acts Copy Share Image
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done… — Kate Braverman About Copy Share Image
“The night stayed outside. She was surprised. She opened her mouth but no sound came out. Instead, blue things flew in, pieces… — Kate Braverman Blue Copy Share Image
“There is no darkness. It is all inhabited. It is dense with what has been cast off and barely survived, the events… — Kate Braverman Dark Copy Share Image
“I feel you're far away,” the man might say. He is observing you, calculating, forming equations he may take to a representative… — Kate Braverman Considering Copy Share Image
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman Citizens Copy Share Image
Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage. — Kate Braverman Falling Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art. — Kate Braverman Art Copy Share Image
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic. — Kate Braverman Leading me Copy Share Image
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. — Kate Braverman Communist Copy Share Image
“It is in the ruins of this darkness that we absolve the ones who love us badly.” — Kate Braverman Darkness Copy Share Image
I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features. — Kate Braverman Borderline Copy Share Image
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography. — Kate Braverman Biographies Copy Share Image
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul.… — Kate Braverman Characters Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Books Copy Share Image
Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the… — Kate Braverman Afternoon Copy Share Image
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so… — Kate Braverman Able Copy Share Image
“Now I know all city parks are the same. Hyde Park. The bluffs above Santa Monica. The Tuileries. Just paths beneath trees… — Kate Braverman City parks Copy Share Image
Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are… — Kate Braverman Arms Copy Share Image
writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself… — Kate Braverman Bones Copy Share Image
“Suddenly she wants to fall to her knees and pray for the poets. She imagines them with immaculate ravaged faces, with necklaces… — Kate Braverman Poetry Copy Share Image
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol… — Kate Braverman Age Copy Share Image
“You're carrying so much excess baggage,” a therapist she saw only once had told her. He was employing the expensive sifting-of-tea-leaves voice… — Kate Braverman Excess baggage Copy Share Image
Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear. — Kate Braverman Bears Copy Share Image
To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds. — Kate Braverman Birth Copy Share Image
