Dennis Cooper Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I think ***** is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.”
-- Dennis Cooper

#Thinking #Rich #Mediums
“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”
-- Dennis Cooper

#Kids #Writing #Creativity
“My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.”
-- Dennis Cooper

#Writing #Editing #Long
“Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”
-- Dennis Cooper

#Eras #Nostalgia #Guillotine
“I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.”
-- Dennis Cooper

#Lonely #Thinking #People
“Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.”
-- Dennis Cooper

#Condescending #Term #Cult
“When I read Spencer Madsenâ€™s poetry, I not only feel awe because heâ€™s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. Itâ€™s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really loveÂ You Can Make Anything Sad.”
-- Dennis Cooper

#Love You #Thinking #Feelings

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