Julia James Burns

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
― Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

“Truth works a trip wire that permits the book to explode into being.”
― Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir

“Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.”
― Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir