Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Blockis an American writer of adult and young-adult literature: fiction, short stories, screenplays and poetry. She is known best for the Weetzie Bat series — named after its first installment and her first novel, which she wrote while a UC Berkeley student, Weetzie Bat. She is known for her use of imagery, especially in describing the city of Los Angeles. One New York Times Book Review critic said, "Block writes about the real Los Angeles better than anyone...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 December 1962
CountryUnited States of America
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.
I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?
It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.
If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you
You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.
He was so handsome,but he didn't look well.He reminded her of a cigarette.
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.
Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.
It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
Welcome Beauty, banish fear.
What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?