You can’t teach an ear, you can’t teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants. Marya Hornbacher Read Quote
My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn’t say my relationship with either of them – they’re no longer together – is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through. Marya Hornbacher Read Quote
When you’re teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, ‘Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you’re writing about?’ Marya Hornbacher Read Quote
Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem. Marya Hornbacher Read Quote
It’s really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place. Marya Hornbacher Read Quote
