Writing Quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch

I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might just want to drink my latte and buy pretty shoes and write books about girls who marry, die, or go insane, then go get my nails done.

Book

Girl

Writing

Lidia Yuknavitch

Memoirs have at their heart a content that “happened” to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question, so that if you are a reviewer or you are writing a critique you might feel as if you are stepping on someone’s actual face?

Heart

Real

Writing

Lidia Yuknavitch

Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form – semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style experimentations tethered to literary movements (formalism, deconstruction, modernism, and postmodernism), and the basic principal of breaking every rule I ever learned from a patriarchal writing tradition that never included my body or experience, and thus has nothing to offer me in terms of representation.

Choices

Style

Writing

Lidia Yuknavitch

These words “accessible” and “emotionally available” get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers – or the reverse – if it’s not all goo-ey and sentimental we’re told it’s “cold” or “uncaring” or “emotionally vacant.” In other words, responses to women’s writing in particular continue to be “gendered.”

Agents

Editors

Writing

Lidia Yuknavitch

Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it’s a load of crap but it gets bandied about a good bit) is that they don’t write the “big” stories about “universal” or “worldly” concepts…Jesus. Um, when we do? We get told to get back in the kitchen and bedroom – go back to writing about love-y wife-y mother-y things.

Jesus

Mother

Writing

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Agents

Amplify

Art

Ass

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Blow

Body

Book

Character

Choices

Crazy

Dark

Delirium

Drawing

Editors

Example

Feelings

Fiction

Forgive Me

Forgiving

Form

Girl

Grief

Heart

Hero

House

Jesus

Kindness

Laughter

Life

Life Experience

Light

Loss

Memoir

Men

Mistake

Mother

Moving

Ocean

Order

Past

People

Perfect

Practice

Projects

Real

Reality

Sadness

Self

Sound

Space

Stories

Strategy

Struggle

Style

Technology

Thinking

Tired

Violent Acts

Water

Wish

Writing

Years

Writing Quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch

I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might just want to drink my latte and buy pretty shoes and write books about girls who marry, die, or go insane, then go get my nails done.

Memoirs have at their heart a content that “happened” to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question, so that if you are a reviewer or you are writing a critique you might feel as if you are stepping on someone’s actual face?

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