“Writing is lucid dreaming – the work of the subconscious that has a toe in the conscious, just enough to harness the dream’s waywardness. I always heard it said that writing draws on the subconscious, but that isn’t true. It is the subconscious, and it draws on the conscious.”
― The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
― The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
“To write fiction you have to engage in organised fraud, the laundering of experience into the offshore haven of words.”
― The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
― The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
“Glitch is something that extends beyond the most literal technological mechanics: it helps us to celebrate failure as a generative force, a new way to take on the world.”
― Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
― Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
“What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“The mind is a prison. And when we write the noise is distilled and alchemised, and the self can find a way out, which I think is what love is – the escape of the self from the self.”
― The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
― The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
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