A locus through which intensities pass

Hey Writer,
What forms you?

Lidia Yuknavitch, author The Chronology of Water — a fierce, poetic and painful memoir — has some very clear ideas:

1.
I think gender and sexuality are territories of possibility. Nevermind what we've been told or what the choices appear to be. Inside artistic practice the possibilities open back up.

2.
I think narrative is quantum.

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I think the writer is a locus through which intensities pass.

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I think literature is that which fights back against the oppressive scripts of socialization and good citizenship.

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I think the space of making art is freedom of being.

6.
I think things that happen to us are true. Writing is a whole other body.

7.
I believe in art the way other people believe in god.

 — from Lidia Yuknavitch's website