That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work.. I kept encountering a striking factoid..: she’s often cited as the most influential poetry critic of her generation. And she’s openly trans. This is not the world I was taught I would grow into when I was a young trans child -- the one where transgender people are heard, are brilliant, are influential, are even the best. At anything. Being trans, I’d learned subliminally, was supposed to keep you from being that -- even if you loved your trans self, and even if some other trans people and a few allies did too, the world at large would keep your potential tamped down." - from "Surface Difficulty: An Adventure in Reading Trans Poetry, " Original Plumbing Magazine 2014 . Mitch Kellaway
It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, it just...
-
C. Joybell C.
Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
-
Jacob Nordby
If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?
-
L.A. Jones
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to...
-
C. Joybell C.
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]
-
Cormac McCarthy
More Quotes By Mitch Kellaway
That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work.. I kept encountering a striking factoid..: she’s often cited as the most influential poetry critic of her generation. And she’s openly trans. This is not the world I was taught...
We’re at this really unique time, I think, in trans representation in popular culture where homelessness, depression, mental health issues, instability-in-general are still so very real and need to be talked about, but we’re aware that they’ve dominated “trans” stories for years and years. And...