To Write as if Already Dead Quotes

“In this current environment of precarity, this so-called gig economy, it is difficult not to romanticize a job that ends, just like many romanticize being a writer so as to not have a job, to have one’s hours to one’s self after a certain time, to have weekends, to not have capitalism suck up all available energy and possible time, not having to work constantly, including often for free, in this nebulous and borderless realm of publicizing one’s self and one’s work, in order to continue, not even to succeed, but just to continue. Although both possibilities are most likely fictions. Maybe the only way to truly luxuriate in thinking and time was to be independently wealthy.”
― Kate Zambreno, To Write as if Already Dead

“I wrote you a postcard—did it not arrive?”
― Kate Zambreno, To Write as if Already Dead

“I wonder at these opposing desires in us as writers—the simultaneous desire to disappear and to be known.”
― Kate Zambreno, To Write as if Already Dead