I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
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 Image
“ 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 Image
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 Image
“Like a vase, a heart breaks once. After that, it just yields to its flaws.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“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 Image
