Kathy Acker Quote

Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.

"On Delany the Magician", a foreword to Trouble on Triton (1996) by Samuel R. Delany, and reprinted in Acker's collection Bodies of Work (1996)

Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are...

Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are...

Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are...

Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are...