Best 17 quotes of Nell Zink on MyQuotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

So many men, so little parking.

The easy joy and the joyful ease of sex with men, their easy-access genitalia, their uncomplicated inner lives…

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

When the past is hard to explain, it’s best to concentrate on the future.