Phrase by 'Mary Karr'

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Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  You , Me , People , Childhood


People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  Life , People , Coffee , Dark


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.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  You , Yourself , Escape , Style


I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  Think , Like , Problem , Media


I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  Back , Think , Way , Artist


I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  Myself , People , God , Personality


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

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  Some , Emotional , Connection , Memoir


I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  Never , Enough , Smart , Happen


I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  Life , Think , Reading , My Life


I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

Author: Mary Karr - American Poet
  Love , Think , Way , Fall


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