Kathy Acker

You know I've had work banned.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

That's what the right-wing is good at figuring out the left wing.

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

Burroughs was a very political writer.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

I question do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist

You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me You'll be able to write when you've found a voice.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

You can do whatever you want with my work.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

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.

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.