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Kevin Keck

(1973) Poet

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Kevin Keck is a poet.

Quick Facts About Kevin Keck

Born: June 20, 1973
Profession: Poet

About Kevin Keck

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] Kevin David Keck is an American writer. His writing appears to be largely autobiographical, though in recent publications he has asserted that the character called "Kevin Keck" is in fact merely a fictional persona. He is best known for his collection of personal essays Oedipus Wrecked, which chroni

Quotes by Kevin Keck

Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll…

Critical

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What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the…

Assertion

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Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most…

Bills

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If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the…

Crucial

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In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose…

Advice

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As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way…

Abundance

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That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you…

Bed

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As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in…

Becoming

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I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the…

Achieve

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I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't…

Criticism

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It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or…

Computer

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In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact…

Behinds

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Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path…

Activity

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At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people…

Bits

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Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one…

Aspect

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Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make…

Audience

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You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work…

Amount

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I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of…

Amount

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I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route.…

Book

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I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers…

Advice

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I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as…

Comedy

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I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll…

Compulsion

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Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin…

Books

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