For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail. Mary Karr avoidcheckday share on social
There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety. Mary Karr dreamsobrietysucceed Change image and share on social
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 bodycommunecommunion Change image and share on social
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. Mary Karr overnightpublishsuccess Change image and share on social
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating. Mary Karr audiobookbookbuy Change image and share on social
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. Mary Karr dayhourhouse Change image and share on social
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 attentionawakebreak share on social
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. Mary Karr bookclasscritical Change image and share on social
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. Mary Karr aestheticallychallengeemotionally Change image and share on social
