“I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.” ThinkingWritingTryingPersonsSelfPhilosophyBigsFormLiteratureFictionCreativeDoubtSeeingStudentsTheoryObsessionConfusionCuriousCreative WritingTabooWorkshopsInvestigatingWriting WorkshopEncourage Students Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!” ThinkingWritingIdeasDifferentMightWonderfulPublishingPublish Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.” IfsThinkingBook Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.” ThinkingHelpingCoursesCrisisInvisibleOur SocietyExistentialGetting OldGetting OlderPersonal ExperiencesOlder WomenExistential Crisis Author:Kate Zambreno
“People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensReasonTaughtStressTrauma Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.” ThinkingWantWifeMadRoutesMistress Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.” ThinkingGeniusNervesPermission Author:Kate Zambreno
“I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.” ThinkingMenLiteratureAutobiographyChannelingEmbargo Author:Kate Zambreno
“I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.” ThinkingMemoirCanon Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.” IfsThinkingFirstsPersonsDoeStillsBookEndsCharacterFemaleNotesEmpoweringPrivilegedFirst PersonMain Characters 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 think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.” ThinkingSpaceIndustryReaderOnlinePublishingPublishing Industry Author:Kate Zambreno
