Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
Kathy AckerI understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
Kathy AckerA language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
Kathy AckerPerhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.
Kathy Acker