There isn't going to be anyone to tell you what to do most of the time. It has to be your own… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.' — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I don't have an opinion about whether or not politics should appear more in fiction or not, generally. I think politics are… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Point of view changes so much as time goes on. And it's important to acknowledge that the truth is multifaceted. And yet… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.” — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't be doing this, he thought. She is actually a nice person. for a moment he had an impulse to embrace… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“I carry love wrapped in pain. That is my treasure and soon it will be yours.” — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“God famously doesn't afflict Job because of anything Job has done, but because he wants to prove a point to Satan. Twenty years later,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending. — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct. — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“...loading your brain with subliminal messages.... How loathsome to turn a sadistic murder into entertainment [in the newspaper] -- and yet how hard not… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“The place Joanne is building inside [herself] has rooms for all of this. Not just rooms. Beautiful ones. For Karl and Jerry and Karen… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out of my… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
When my first book came out, it was very disorienting. My health went south. I didn't know how to relate to people. I thought,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“But life can give a lot. If you can’t see inside the heart no matter how you look, then why not look? Why not… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Sexuality is a place where people are very vulnerable and can be experiencing and embodying very raw forces that they don't really understand and… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
