Non-Traditional Writing Quotes

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

I don't really have a writing process. I don't write at all but, honestly, I feel like it's a modern-day writing because everything is technology and if I go in there and freestyle and I keep it, I feel like I wrote that. If I go in there and fix it, it's almost like something I wrote.

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.