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Laurie Anderson

"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."

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"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."

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"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."
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"A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire."
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"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."
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"People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for."
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"I think women are excellent social critics."
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"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that."
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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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"Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."

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"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."

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