Quentin S. Crisp Quotes

[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.

Quentin S. Crisp

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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

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E. L. Doctorow
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- Why
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

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- Writing
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

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- Writing
- Acting
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