• 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.

    Mary Karr: 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.
    "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, The Paris Review, Issue 191, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2009.