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.
Mary KarrI 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.
Mary KarrReading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and youโre not there anymore. Itโs better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
Mary Karr