“She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.” FirstsStillsSometimesHandsLightDifficultRoomsLonelyOneselfCupsDelicateRepetitionInhale Author:Kate Zambreno
“I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.” FeelsPersonsSometimesHomeTerribleExpectationsCapitalismSickProductivityProductiveHousewifeSick Person Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.” ThinkingWritingSometimesExistenceIdentityKeysConflictGenderCriticalOnlineHierarchyExaminingMessiness Author:Kate Zambreno
“I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejournal or Tumblr - excessive, sometimes automatic, sometimes enraged, emotional, while also quite intellectual - or if formal books will emerge at all, if that's not the point of these unmediated raw spaces. I'm excited by the possibility.” IfsWritingBookSometimesFeelingsSpaceResultsPossibilityEmotionalGrewGrew UpIntellectualExcitedCuriousOnlineFormalPouring Author:Kate Zambreno
