Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

- Kathryn Harrison

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

- Kathryn Harrison

I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so …

- Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

- Kathryn Harrison

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

- Kathryn Harrison

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

- Kathryn Harrison

As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did de…

- Kathryn Harrison

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 puri…

- Kathryn Harrison

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

- Kathryn Harrison