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Dennis Cooper is an American novelist known for his distinctive narrative style and profound literary exploration. His works often delve into dark themes such as crime, death, and sexuality, and are celebrated for their experimental writing techniques.

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“But here I am blocking the view of this simple scene, like a director who accidentally walks in front of his own projector, then stands there, oblivious to the snoring around him.”

Safe Wrong New Narrative

Book:My Mark

Source: My Mark

“When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.”

Love Death Loneliness

Book:I Wished

Source: I Wished

“I'd planned to kill the almost-hour fingering some phone apps whose offbeat missions and designy logos had put the make on my contracted pupils. Still, as coke can't seem to help but use its hopheads to accomplish, I found a quiet study of these apps beyond me, and soon enough my antsy friends and I were in a huddle, having misconstrued our need to chatter as the impetus for lectures and confused one another for captivated listeners at whom we could not spew enough.”

Prose Cocaine Self Importance Coketalk Parlance

Book:The Marbled Swarm

Source: The Marbled Swarm

“I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have few feelings, and even they're too simple, like primary colors.”

Book:Closer

Source: Closer

“I [...] squarely and enthusiastically recommend ['Hey Boy' by A. W. W. Bremont][...]. [...][T]he start of a no doubt stellar oeuvre to come.”

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Author:Dennis Cooper

“When I started writing I was a sick teenaged fuck inside who partly thought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a body doomed to communicate with Satan who was us- ing my sickness as his home away from home, and there’s your proof.”

Writing Proof Sickness

Author:Dennis Cooper

“When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.”

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Author:Dennis Cooper

“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”

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Author:Dennis Cooper

“My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.”

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Author:Dennis Cooper

“I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts to how the sound is lowered or raised. I was trying to get that with writing.”

Thinking Writing Trying Music Is

Author:Dennis Cooper

“A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to make them real in a certain way, because otherwise people won't read them. It's fine if some readers think of them as real. It's just not the way that I think of them.”

People Thinking Trying Real Character Wise People

Author:Dennis Cooper

“Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”

Feels Nostalgia Eras Guillotine

Author:Dennis Cooper

“I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.”

People Thinking Want Littles Facts Risk Lonely Going Away Love Someone Risk It

Book:Guide

Source: Guide

“I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.”

Thinking Rich Mediums Pornography

Author:Dennis Cooper

“Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.”

Term Cult Condescending

Author:Dennis Cooper

About the Author

Born: 1953
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 15

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