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Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

- Mary Karr
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I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

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

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.

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Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.