American - Poet | January 16, 1955 -
There are all kinds of things God wants me to do that I'm very obstreperous about.
Mary Karr
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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.
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The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
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Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.
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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.
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I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.
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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.
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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.
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The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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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.
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I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
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