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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Anything Else
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I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Book
Care
Mines
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All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Agony
Artist
Used
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Ability
Dimes
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Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Bears
Just Being
Rooms
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Dime
Improvise
Verbally
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Borderline
Features
Technically
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Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Men
Biographies
Defined
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To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Birth
Garden
World
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Citizens
Historical
Mourning
Prepared
Variety
Citizen
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In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Poetry
Country
World
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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Falling In Love
Falling
Imply
Landscapes
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I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Logic
Sound
Writing
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Chaotic
Unfortunately
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Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Men
Priorities
Years
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Ghetto
Spectrum
Confines
Inherit
Narrow
Operating
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You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Departure
Destination
Disappear
Intervention
Los Angeles
Angeles
Simply
Leave
Los
Magical
Purchase
Requires
Ticket
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Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Flare Up
Illumination
Writing
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All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Moon
Pyramids
Writing
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Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Heart
Hunting
Writing
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I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Space
Each Day
Vampire
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Complicated
Critics
Presenting
Publishing
Threatening
Unpredictable
Men Women More
Male
Challenging
Women Men More
Wives
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The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Elements
Nuclear Families
Revolution
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I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Computer
Discovery
Ears
Elements
Acts
Touch
Internal
Madame
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Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Children
Fire
Talking
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Being Done
Bizarre
Establishment
Geography
Los Angeles
Movie Industry
Prejudice
Publishing
Screens
Sensibility
Shallow
Vulgar
Angeles
Banal
Exists
Work New Done
Los
Trained
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I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Children
Real
Tattoo
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writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Giving
Thinking
Writing
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They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?
Kate Braverman / Novelist
Love
Men
Marijuana
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