Mary Karr
Mary Karr
Mary Karris an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. She is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
order years clothes
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.
football boys play
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.
lines machines calm
We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.
book healthy age
Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.
dad guy way
Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.
strive veracity
As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
inspire desire week
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
memories mean numbers
I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.
smart enough form
I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
writing people psychological
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
falling-in-love writing thinking
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
rain boys wind
When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.
people suffering stuff
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
writing divorce faces
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.