Citizens Quote by Kate Braverman

“There is no darkness. It is all inhabited. It is dense with what has been cast off and barely survived, the events that also…

— Kate Braverman

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

— Kate Braverman

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained…

— Kate Braverman

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

— Kate Braverman

“It's not platinum, which suggests constellations and redemption. It's another yellow entirely. Asthma yellow. It comes from rotting petals and camera flashes that permanently…

— Kate Braverman

I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to…

— Kate Braverman

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

Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters…

— Kate Braverman

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

— Kate Braverman

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead.…

— Kate Braverman

“The place between actual seasons is filled with tiny roses in transition. There are murders and amputations in the garden. There are choirs on…

— Kate Braverman

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive…

— Kate Braverman