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Kate Braverman Quotes

It’s not platinum, which suggests constellations and redemption. It’s another yellow entirely. Asthma yellow. It comes from rotting petals and camera flashes that permanently scar your face. It leaks from clusters of stucco that remind me of blisters and lumps you get on your lips from kissing the wrong people Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’m manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it Picture Quote #1

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care Picture Quote #1

Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is - Funny Quotes

Together is my favorite place to be - Love Quotes

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves Picture Quote #1

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear Picture Quote #1

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode Picture Quote #1

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren’t random; they have their own logic Picture Quote #1

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Fail Quotes

Don't look back you're not going that way - Inspirational Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime Picture Quote #1

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

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It’s not platinum, which suggests constellations and redemption. It’s another yellow entirely. Asthma yellow. It comes from rotting petals and camera flashes that permanently scar your face. It leaks from clusters of stucco that remind me of blisters and lumps you get on your lips from kissing the wrong people. (Kate Braverman Quotes) 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 Quotes) I’m manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features (Kate Braverman Quotes) 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 Quotes) If you can be anything else but a writer, be it (Kate Braverman Quotes) I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care (Kate Braverman Quotes) In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves (Kate Braverman Quotes) Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear (Kate Braverman Quotes) All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode (Kate Braverman Quotes) Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography (Kate Braverman Quotes) 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 Quotes) I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren’t random; they have their own logic (Kate Braverman Quotes) 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 Quotes) To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds (Kate Braverman Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime (Kate Braverman Quotes)