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Top 20 Kate Braverman Quotes (2025 Update)

Kate Braverman Quote: “Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”

1. “Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “I’ve always lived here, by the sea. I was a beach brat. I was born riding the peak of a crest of a wave. I was born with salt in my eyes. No, I mean it. I was conceived right down there on that beach. Six years old and surfing. It’s all that sea in me. That’s what makes my eyes change color. I’ve got waves inside. The ocean runs through me, man.”

2. “I’ve always lived here, by the sea. I was a beach brat. I was born riding the peak of a crest of a wave. I was born with salt in my eyes. No, I mean it. I was conceived right down there on that beach. Six years old and surfing. It’s all that sea in me. That’s what makes my eyes change color. I’ve got waves inside. The ocean runs through me, man.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.”

3. “All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.”

4. “I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.”

5. “I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.”

6. “All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.”

7. “Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.”

8. “In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it’s so illuminated that I’m able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.”

9. “Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it’s so illuminated that I’m able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.”

10. “To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.”

11. “I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.”

12. “Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.”

13. “If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.”

14. “Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “It’s not platinum, which suggests constellations and redemption. It’s another yellow entirely. Asthma yellow. It comes from rotting petals and camera flashes that permanently scar your face. It leaks from clusters of stucco that remind me of blisters and lumps you get on your lips from kissing the wrong people.”

15. “It’s not platinum, which suggests constellations and redemption. It’s another yellow entirely. Asthma yellow. It comes from rotting petals and camera flashes that permanently scar your face. It leaks from clusters of stucco that remind me of blisters and lumps you get on your lips from kissing the wrong people.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “Now I know all city parks are the same. Hyde Park. The bluffs above Santa Monica. The Tuileries. Just paths beneath trees where people walk in varying states of heartbreak. Staggering between divorces and biopsies. And at the edge, one final row of lavender azaleas.”

16. “Now I know all city parks are the same. Hyde Park. The bluffs above Santa Monica. The Tuileries. Just paths beneath trees where people walk in varying states of heartbreak. Staggering between divorces and biopsies. And at the edge, one final row of lavender azaleas.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren’t random; they have their own logic.”

17. “I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren’t random; they have their own logic.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “Like I’m dragging bundles of old clothes? I’m carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I’m talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I’d no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I’ll carry them until someone amputates my arms.”

18. “Like I’m dragging bundles of old clothes? I’m carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I’m talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I’d no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I’ll carry them until someone amputates my arms.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “I know California isn’t a real destination. You can’t get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It’s about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.”

19. “I know California isn’t a real destination. You can’t get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It’s about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “The place between actual seasons is filled with tiny roses in transition. There are murders and amputations in the garden. There are choirs on the sandy floors beneath oceans.”

20. “The place between actual seasons is filled with tiny roses in transition. There are murders and amputations in the garden. There are choirs on the sandy floors beneath oceans.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.”

21. “As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “It occurred to her, suddenly, that the Chinese took poets as concubines. Their poets slept with warlords. They wrote with gold ink. They ate orchids and smoked opium. They were consecrated by nuance, by birds and silk and the ritual birthdays of gods and nothing changed for a thousand years. And afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites.”

22. “It occurred to her, suddenly, that the Chinese took poets as concubines. Their poets slept with warlords. They wrote with gold ink. They ate orchids and smoked opium. They were consecrated by nuance, by birds and silk and the ritual birthdays of gods and nothing changed for a thousand years. And afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “Los Angeles is like a white world, filled with ever smaller white circles, leading to some perfect white core. Los Angeles is where the angels with their white capped teeth and their white tennis dresses, gradually edged closer to the pure center, ambrosia, the fountain of youth.”

23. “Los Angeles is like a white world, filled with ever smaller white circles, leading to some perfect white core. Los Angeles is where the angels with their white capped teeth and their white tennis dresses, gradually edged closer to the pure center, ambrosia, the fountain of youth.”

— Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman Quote: “It is always a poet’s winter.”

24. “It is always a poet’s winter.”

— Kate Braverman

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