“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Source: The Tent (2006)
“This is a very complex, wondrous business I'm in. My kicks are my work. I'm miserable when I'm not working.”
New York Times, Dane Clark, Actor, 85, Dies; Starred in World War II Films, September 16, 1998
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“I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.”
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Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?
Context: I'm starting to worry about self-censorship — that I might be internalizing some shit. I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing — writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like.