Mary Gaitskill Quotes

The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore pea...

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to st...

My ambition was to live like music.

Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the...

A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard ti...

It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people ...

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for...

If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, ...

Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does ...

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some ...

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisi...