Quotes by Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen

“Influence” is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across – permeates – the boundaries of the self.

Disease

Italian

Self

Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those who most deserve our care and protection.

Abuse

Admitting

Care

And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some apparent or usual protections, and a need to re-examine “identity” in the light of an acknowledgement of our entanglements and interdependence.

Grief

Identity

Light

Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust that was the best writing advice I ever got (I got it from Carole Maso and I pass it on). It’s true, and clearer and clearer as one grows and gains an improved sense of who one actually is (as versus who one was supposed to be).

Advice

Grief

Writing

Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

Examination

Police

Protection

Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work “roads not taken,” suggesting that it’s useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It’s one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.

Differences

Taken

Writing

I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word “intention,” confusing (“trust the art,” as D.H. Lawrence said, “not the artist”). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.

Art

Book

Confusing

I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-’97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book’s themes and threads – that was a long time ago.

Art

Book

Writing

I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different – and better – possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.

America

Children

Honesty

I love that “furious and gorgeous barrage.” That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book’s final section, where writing about a fire (and about the attempt to understand the event), also becomes an attempt to understand how writing might get closer to the fire, in so many ways.

Book

Fire

Writing

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Abuse

Admitting

Advice

America

Arbitrary

Art

Artist

Batteries

Book

Cancer

Care

Character

Children

Confusing

Country

Crazy

Dallas

Daughter

Degrees

Desire

Differences

Discovery

Disease

Doe

Dwelling

Effort

Epidemics

Events

Examination

Father

Fighting

Fire

Gertrude

Grief

Groups

Hands

Hands Up

Healing

Hey

Holes

Honesty

Ideas

Identity

Interesting

Issues

Italian

Letting Go

Light

Littles

Loyalty

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Quotes by Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen

“Influence” is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across – permeates – the boundaries of the self.

Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those who most deserve our care and protection.

And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some apparent or usual protections, and a need to re-examine “identity” in the light of an acknowledgement of our entanglements and interdependence.

Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different – and better – possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.

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