6 Quotes & Sayings By Kathryn Harrison

Kathryn Harrison is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and screenwriter. She is best known for her critically acclaimed debut novel, The Kiss. She has also had work published in the literary periodicals The Atlantic Monthly Review, The New Yorker, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's. Her short stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays Read more

She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.

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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. Kathryn Harrison
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My days are as long as despair can make them. Kathryn Harrison
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I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision. Kathryn Harrison
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I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules. Kathryn Harrison
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We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes. Kathryn Harrison