Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrisonis an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth20 March 1961
CountryUnited States of America
depends fickle input mental modern muse notion subscribe success
How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.
forth include nonfiction terms
In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.
want who-you-are
Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.
air water force-of-will
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.
long despair
My days are as long as despair can make them.
children unconditional-love thinking
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.
body stories scar
Scars are stories, history written on the body
writing thinking identity
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.
I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.