Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in fact sophisticated have come to distrust stories that are uplifting or simply stories in which the characters get what they want in the end. Because in life, what you want is never the end.

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.