Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. Thatโs a more fruitful way to be.
Mary KarrHow much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.
Mary KarrIt turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.
Mary Karr