Top 37 Quotes by David Antin

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.