230 Quotes by Mary Karr

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

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

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.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

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.

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.