Dennis Cooper Quotes

When I read Spencer Madsen's poetry, I not only feel awe because he's so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It's the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

When you see everything you realise nothing means anything.

I'm just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.

When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there's your proof.

I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.

when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea's reconvening halves?

I like flat black. It doesn't try to explain anything, and it's been hip since before I was born, I guess.

Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.

Why do you think UFOs never land? Why don't ghosts just say hello?

My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.

I [...] squarely and enthusiastically recommend ['Hey Boy' by A.W.W. Bremont][...]. [...][T]he start of a no doubt stellar oeuvre to come.