July 22nd, 2011 / 12:24 pm
 Craft Notes

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme on Writing

“Anybody can kill anybody.”

“I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.”

“We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren’t supposed to see, and when our pants were down.”

[re: approaching Gerald Ford with an unloaded weapon] “He looked like cardboard to me… but at the same time, I had ejected the bullet in my apartment, and I used the gun as it was.”

[re: Charles Manson] “I know I laid a lot of my thinking in his mind.”

“I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.”

“Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them.”

“People have already shown you can lay blood in front of them and they’re not, you know, they don’t think anything of it.”

“When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.”

“Usually a person who does what I did doesn’t repeat it.”

“It’s in everybody.”

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7 Comments

  1. July 22nd, 2011 / 6:27 pm deadgod—

      [from Everything2]

      One guy (in the last prison Manson was in) got out, had a sex change operation, married his in-prison lover and got conjugal visits.  That was while [Manson and I] weren’t allowed to [have monitored phone conversations].  I didn’t object to these peoples’ relations AND AFTER TWENTY YEARS NO ONE SHOULD OBJECT TO MINE.

      I found myself getting interested in [the OJ case] and I thought, ‘Is my life that vacant?’

      What she says above about “toxic wastes” makes not<100% sense to me.

      1000 hamsters turning 1000 wheels for 1000 years will occasionally produce squeaky 'words'.

      Does 'picking signal from noise' = "rational"?  –and 'signal' = "poetry"?

  2. July 22nd, 2011 / 7:12 pm Ken Baumann—

      Thanks for this. Murder book.

  3. July 22nd, 2011 / 7:48 pm EC—

      I always kind of had the hots for her.

  4. July 22nd, 2011 / 11:23 pm Dawn.—

      One of my favorites in this series.

  5. July 23rd, 2011 / 2:59 am Corey Zeller—

       
      I actually really like the line “We all came from houses with doors…”
      I think that would be a great first line in a story. 
      Actually, for some weird reason, I think it would be a great first line for a novelization of The People Under the Stairs, as told from the point of view of either one of the boys in the basement or Alice.

       

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