“Why shouldn’t loving puppets be a revolutionary act, in a world where so many people love drone warfare?” — Nell Zink Puppets Copy Share Image
I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way. — Nell Zink Challenges Copy Share Image
I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had. — Nell Zink Best job Copy Share Image
Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up… — Nell Zink Beings Copy Share Image
I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They… — Nell Zink Anarchist Copy Share Image
The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care… — Nell Zink Art Copy Share Image
What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress.… — Nell Zink Being different Copy Share Image
I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares;… — Nell Zink Binoculars Copy Share Image
“They should build a monument,” Cary said. “All the times I got my ass beat to a pulp so the youth of… — Nell Zink Monument Copy Share Image
People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll… — Nell Zink Early work Copy Share Image
“I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity… — Nell Zink Petty Bourgeoisie Copy Share Image
I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me. — Nell Zink Knows Copy Share Image
“For jobs and men, it’s a seller’s market. There are no other fish in the sea.” — Nell Zink Fish in the sea Copy Share Image
In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream,… — Nell Zink Able Copy Share Image
“it’s the stories we tell ourselves that cause all the problems. If you look reality straight in the eye, you end up… — Nell Zink Reality Copy Share Image
There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition. — Nell Zink Easier Copy Share Image
I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and… — Nell Zink Adults Copy Share Image
Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never… — Nell Zink Art Copy Share Image
“I mean No South. You can’t have ‘New’ and ‘South.’ It’s oxymoronic. I’m talking about the No South. The unstoppable force that’s… — Nell Zink South Copy Share Image
“It’s a digital e-cigarette.” “What’s digital about it?” “You hold it in your fingers, like this.” “I’m serious. Is it part of… — Nell Zink Digital Copy Share Image
