 But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. |
| I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. |
| You can do whatever you want with my work. |
| I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever. |
| I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other. |
| I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it. |
| And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. |
| We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. |
| 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. |
| We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. |
| I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used. |
| That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. |
| I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. |
| But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is. |
| Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it. |
| You know I've had work banned. |
| One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out. |
| 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. |
| And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. |
