Mary Karr Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.”

“On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.”

“Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.”

“Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.”

“Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.”

“The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.”

“The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.”

“The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.”

“There are all kinds of things God wants me to do that I'm very obstreperous about.”

“I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.”