I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew… — Mary Karr Copy Share
Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we… — Mary Karr Copy Share
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share
“And Meredith says that reminds her of a Camus novel, the one about the plague, and she tells the story of it, the tale… — Mary Karr Copy Share
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being… — Mary Karr Copy Share
I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. — Mary Karr Copy Share
“Then it hits me. I’m actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings… — Mary Karr Copy Share
“I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt… — Mary Karr Copy Share
I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once… — Mary Karr Copy Share
Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. — Mary Karr Copy Share
It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and… — Mary Karr Copy Share
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a… — Mary Karr Copy Share
It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken… — Mary Karr Copy Share
“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.” — Mary Karr Copy Share
