Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah Manguso

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Sarah Manguso.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sarah Manguso is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008), was named an "Editors’ Choice" title by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her book Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015) was also named a New York Times "Editors’ Choice." Her debut novel, Very Cold People, was published by Penguin in 2022.

American - Writer | Born: 1974

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I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.

Sarah Manguso

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

Sarah Manguso

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

Sarah Manguso

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

Sarah Manguso

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Sarah Manguso

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

Sarah Manguso

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Sarah Manguso

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

Sarah Manguso

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.

Sarah Manguso

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

Sarah Manguso

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

Sarah Manguso

My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.

Sarah Manguso

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Sarah Manguso

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

Sarah Manguso

The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as a project, to contain some part of reality, which is chaotic by definition, in a contained space. I like small apartments. I like getting rid of stuff. I went through my files yesterday and spent hours shredding things. It was great.

Sarah Manguso

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

Sarah Manguso

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

Sarah Manguso