Mary Gaitskill Quotes

“My ambition was to live like music.”

Mary Gaitskill

“Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.”

Mary Gaitskill

Source: Veronica

“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”

Mary Gaitskill

Source: Bad Behavior

“Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.”

Mary Gaitskill

Interview on NPR All Things Considered, April 19, 2009.

“She brightened. "Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want somebody to hurt me and humiliate me."”

Mary Gaitskill

"The Wrong Thing: Stuff" in Because They Wanted To, p. 244, Simon & Schuster, 1997.