Koren Zailckas
Koren Zailckas
Koren Zailckasis a bestselling American writer and memoirist. Her debut, Smashed, was released in 2005 by Viking Penguin and became a New York Times bestseller. Zailckas attended Nashoba Regional High School in Bolton, Massachusetts and Syracuse University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
thinking normal emotion
I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.
gratitude thinking self
I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.
thinking numbers statistics
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
dream thinking years
I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me
catching ways
I'm getting there. I'm catching up, I think. I feel like I have a ways to go.
again drinking mask memories scary stupid
It was drinking and doing stupid things, or drinking and having scary things happen, but then drinking again to ... mask the memories of it.
deal parents point students
I really think, at this point in time, it does have to be all of us who deal with that as culture. It has to be students and parents and administrations and the government.
almost experience felt fragile poe scared though
Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.
build event exist
I would never make up a character who didn't exist or an event that didn't transpire. If you're a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.
adult looking prove sort
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.
baby bumps children mothers
America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.
advantage apart life putting taking
When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.
frida owning
Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.
freak nature wonder
It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.