Mary Karr Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

  Mary Karr

  Laughter, Book, Reading

• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

• The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

  Mary Karr

  Book, Healing, Body

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.173, Penguin

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

  Mary Karr

  Book, Profound, Degrees

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

  Mary Karr

  Book, Healthy, Age

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