Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Mary Karr
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
Writer
Groves
Texas
Make
Comes
Sympathy
Inspirational
Empathy
Others
Compassion
Else
Poetry
Commune
Someone
Passion
Communes
Body
Community
Eucharistic
Book
Reading
Essayists
Take
Suffering
Communion
More quotes by Mary Karr
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.
Mary Karr
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
Mary Karr
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
Mary Karr
Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we want magic, to win the lottery we never bought a ticket for.
Mary Karr
Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.
Mary Karr
It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.
Mary Karr
I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
Mary Karr
Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
Mary Karr
Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.
Mary Karr
Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
Mary Karr
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.
Mary Karr
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
Mary Karr
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Mary Karr
I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
Mary Karr
I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
Mary Karr
As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
Mary Karr
There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
Mary Karr
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.
Mary Karr
I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
Mary Karr
Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
Mary Karr