“My least favorite received idea about writing is that one must find one's voice, as if it's there inside you, ready to be turned on like a player piano. Like character, its very existence depends on interaction with the world.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
“The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
“There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
“It’s impossible to fail if one doesn’t know how the end should look. And it’s impossible to succeed. But it’s possible to enjoy.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
“I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
“Like a vase, a heart breaks once. After that, it just yields to its flaws.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
“Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a book a… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share
