"Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein……" — Mary Karr
"Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself."
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Mary Karr
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57 Quotes by Mary Karr
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Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and…
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If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it…
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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in…
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
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Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last…
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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and…
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It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people…
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first…
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