Kate Braverman quotes

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. (Kate Braverman)
If you can be anything else but a writer, be it. View quote
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime. View quote
Kate Braverman
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal. View quote
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable. View quote
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features. View quote
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum. View quote
Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: 1950
Died: October 13, 2019
Quotes count: 7