Aaron Belz Quotes

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn’t saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
AARON BELZ

Author Critical Teach
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we’re pretty dumpy creatures.
AARON BELZ

Sexy
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
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Awake Expect
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think – no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There’s an inherent irony.
AARON BELZ

Consumer Easy Hair
Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.
AARON BELZ

Bizarre Intention
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they’d taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
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Idea Phrase Sequence Taken Two
We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.
AARON BELZ

Label Ponder Silly Watches
I don’t really want to write fiction at all. I don’t see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
AARON BELZ

Confusing Real
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they’ve forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
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Composition Essay Idea
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There’s something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
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Venue

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