Books Quote by Kate Zambreno

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general…

— E. B. White

One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes its own.…

— Jill Talbot

“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with…

— Wally Lamb

“The characteristic feature of contemporary literary radicalism is that it rarely addresses the question of its own determination by the conditions of its production…

— Aijaz Ahmad

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling

“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's…

— Phillip Lopate

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a…

— James Gleick

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

— Natalie Merchant

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster