To write is to engage in dialogue with the dead. - Kathy Acker

"To write is to engage in dialogue with the dead."

Kathy Acker Literature

Novelist American 1947–1997

More from Kathy Acker

"Writing is a form of theft, a way of taking what doesn't belong to you and making it your own."

"I'm trying to be a moral person and at the same time accept that I'm not a good person."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"Love is the most violent emotion."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Literature opens the mind to new worlds"

"The interesting thing about books is that they're made of words."

"Literature captures the essence of what it means to be human."