Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Nell Zink

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Nell Zink is an American writer living in Germany. After being a long term penpal of Avner Shats, she came to prominence in her fifties with the help of Jonathan Franzen and her novel, Mislaid, was longlisted for the National Book Award. The Wallcreeper was released in the United States by the independent press Dorothy and named one of 100 notable books of 2014 by The New York Times. Zink then released Nicotine, Private Novelist and Doxology, all published by Ecco Press.

American - Novelist | Born: 1964

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Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.

Nell Zink

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

Nell Zink

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

Nell Zink

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

Nell Zink

I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.

Nell Zink

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

Nell Zink

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.

Nell Zink

Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.

Nell Zink

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

Nell Zink

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

Nell Zink

My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

Nell Zink

What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

Nell Zink

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

Nell Zink

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

Nell Zink

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Nell Zink

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